Twitter went down last week on the 8th and is down again for an hour, both were planned. That leaves me wondering what else to do when the fail whale comes up or when Twitter plans scheduled maintenance. Here’s my compiled list of 25 alternative things to do when this happens:
1) Write a blog post about Twitter being down (Ehem, haha)
2) Get on Friendfeed and talk about Twitter being down
3) Get on Facebook and talk about Twitter being down
4) Get on Myspace and talk about Twitter being down (Does anyone use MySpace regularly anymore?)
5) See who else is complaining about Twitter being down
6) Try to remember life before Twitter
7) Read some blog posts from your favorite blogs
8 ) Comment on favorite blog posts
9) Check out new iPhone Apps, like Finger Sprint
10) Rediscover some music in your iTunes library
11) Start watching the TV show that’s in the background
12) Watch a movie that you haven’t seen in forever
13) Find a new game to play online, like Letterbox
14) Upload photos that you’ve forgotten about
15) Check out the explored photos of the day on Flickr
16) Put the computer down and go take some photos
17) Check out Likaholix
18) Get on YouTube and watch videos about Twitter
19) Work on some actual work
20) Visit whentwitterisdown.com to get more ideas
Cathryn Gray is a new media chic with many passions and interests, including photography, modeling, blogging, social media, design, gadgets
(especially those Apple ones), traveling and more.
