This Goes Out To All You Twitterers: The Four Phases of Twitter

My friend Duc and I always talk about Twitter - a microblogging service.

I love this from everythingcu.com:

I’ve seen the pattern repeated over and over again when someone is introduced to Twitter for the first time. There are four classic phases:
1. Denial: There is NO way on earth I will EVER use a silly chat service like twitter. I have no use, time, nor place for it in my life.
2. Surprise: You mean my friends and colleagues are here? It’s not just teenagers with nothing better to do?
3. Acceptance: Okay, I like having twitter in my life. This is pretty cool.
4. Addiction: OMG Twitter is doooooooownnnnnnn!

I suggest when you hit stage 4 you buy that Fail Whale t-shirt:

My Love/Hate Relationship with Twitter

Tags: fail, t-shirt, twitter, whale

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Comment by rp {|} // .MrPresident___++ on July 29, 2008 at 10:39pm: I wouldnt buy it... I would hate to place my order and never get it because their e-com server got over loaded.

Comment by alice on July 29, 2008 at 1:22pm: It's when Twitter is over capacity or is having problems on their side (in large part due to scale issues since it's growing so fast):

Some people love the whale though and don't want it to go away. Save the Fail Whales.
Some have even made sculptures of it:

Comment by Kara on July 29, 2008 at 1:04pm: I don't get it... What does this shirt have to do with Twitter?