The day started out, um…strangely.
I woke up around 9. Yeah, I’m lucky like that. And the first thing I did, which is the first thing I always do…
Before moving out of my bed.
Before brushing my teeth.
Before greeting my husband over on the other side of the bed…
I grabbed my laptop from the floor.
I flipped it open.
I pointed the little cursor onto Twitter on my bookmarks tool bar…
And then I stopped breathing. Just a little.
Twitter. It was unresponsive.
I even tried to give it mouth to mouth. It just sat there. Not quite flat-lining. Every once in awhile, a little pulse of a tweet would ping. Giving me hope against all hope that I’d be able to tweet the fact that I had a new post.
But no.
No such luck.
And I tried. And tried. For, what seemed like hours. But was probably mere seconds. To no avail.
Twitter…had been compromised.
The earth stood still for a moment.
Until I realized that there was Plurk. Which seemed to be having issues of its own.
So I resorted to Facebook. Which I don’t have the same affinity for. In fact, I don’t like Facebook at all. But, with my teeth curled, I updated my status there. Because I really love being able to alert everyone to a new post. Probably because I need instant gratification. But that might be the subject for another post entirely.
It felt so wrong. I felt I was betraying Twitter, my love. But Twitter, even when it got back online, still played coy with me when I was on my laptop. But it panted like an excited dog when I used my iPhone. Twitter, you’re a picky slut.
And then…once I figured out that Twitter responded quite nicely to my phone, the power went out.
W. T. F? Gorgeous day. Barely any clouds. A tiny breeze. Snap. No power.
I thought, for sure, we hadn’t paid our bill. It’s happened before. A oversight…for a couple of months.
But no.
It was only on my side of the street in our subdivision. But the good new was, our bill was not neglected. Highway robbers.
But sadly, after tweeting to my hearts content, while my son swam in the pool…
batteries don’t last forever on a charge. No. They don’t.
With no power, there was no way to recharge.
So no twitter.
Now, I can’t even get on Twitter.
Well, I can get on. I can watch everyone else tweet, and link to their new posts, and chat amongst themselves.
And I sit there, taking it all in. Trying to tweet. Putting in small updates and hitting the send button.
Nothing.
I wipe the drool from my mouth.
And the tears from my eyes.
Because I realize that Twitter must be punishing me for straying.
While Twitter was down. I was weak. And I went elsewhere.
I’m so sorry.
Forgive me.
And let me tweet again.
I beg of you.
Because you know, I can’t smile without you.
I can’t blog.
And I can’t tweet.
I’m finding it hard, to live without tweet.
Oh, I know.
That’s what you get for being an unfaithful beyotch…bwa ha ha ha
Lurve yah M. Mwahsss…
I had to spend all day out of the house because otherwise I would die.
LMAO! That was great!
Haha, I laughed because you keep your laptop next to your bed and as soon as you wake up it’s Twitter you seek! Haha,thats funny. Shhhhh….my wife is sleeping as I write this comment, must type softly…
I’m glad I haven’t succumbed to Twitter. With my OCD tendencies, that hacker outage yesterday would have killed me.
this happened to me yesterday too – damn twitter
You are so funny, but these are my estimates exactly. As we speak I am having serious Twitter issues. Its making me grayer if that is possible.
I was thinking about you when I heard that twitter was down, seriously, I was thinking “I wonder how the hell Melissa is taking this ???!!!! LOL!
OH MY GOD. Did you just plop a Barry Manilow reference in there?
DAMN YOU — I’ll be singing Manilow crap for the rest of the day.
Need.More.Coffee!
That was so true for me! I was going crazy! did I pay my internet and phone bills?? oohhh nooo! I forgot!
Instead of my laptop I keep my Iphone close by, is the last thing I see before sleeping and the first one when I wake up and of course is twitter my forbidden love! hahahaha
It was a weird morning yesterday, and that is when I went to facebook looking for answers trying to catch up with a minuscule part of my virtual world but it was pretty lousy too. There at least I found out my internet work, and that twitter had been violated by hackers! how dare they??
Today I’m happy that we can all be together again in twitterville! See you there gir!
It wasn’t a big deal to me yesterday when I was busy most of the day, but today, it’s killing me. I haven’t been able to access twitter all day. Is it just me?
I’m more of a facebook girl myself, and for some reason all day yesterday, FB was pulling the same stuff with me that Twitter was with you. Everyone else could update their status, comment, etc. But mine just kept giving a database error. I figured FB suddenly hated me, took it personally, cried a bit, then gave up. Okay, so I didn’t cry, but I DO tend to take everything personally, lol, so it could have theoretically happened. As for twitter, I couldn’t get on at all last night. Haven’t tried yet today. I only have the attention span for one addiction at a time.
Twitter is mad at me too, though I’m unsure why. It deleted 4800 of my tweets and some followers.
My tweets. They are gone. All the important things. Like my first tweet ever. The one that blames @irbaltimore for suggesting I also need to update the world with my status. (Somewhere along the line I got totally addicted.)
Sigh. I miss my tweets.
Thank Goodness I never started the affair with Twitter to begin with…..
I thought I was bad for checking my mail first thing. At least I do it downstairs after greeting my husband and going to the loo. You really have the internet bug bad, lady!
Thanks for putting that song in my head…