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"Obviously I can't possibly keep the promise I make in the title, but with all the end of week hyperbole being bandied in the name of Twitter-bashing, I couldn't say something else reasonable like \"Twitter is still having problems,\" and \"A Few A-Listers Are Still Upset About Twitter.\" All of this seems to stem from the fact that the replies tab has been disengaged for going on a week now.\nSome folks have today very loudly proclaimed Twitter dead and that FriendFeed is the new reigning champion. As much as I'd love to see FriendFeed the new \"it\" thing (as I spend a lot of my days there recently), I don't think we can quite proclaim the lifecycle of Twitter finished. As I said today (right after I shared the article to FriendFeed):\nLook, I love FriendFeed as much as the next guy, but most folks aren't power users to the extent that they rely on Twitter as a conversations channel. Beyond that, only a fraction of those are even aware of FriendFeed. This sounds good in theory, but when you look outside our little bubble, it simply ain't true.\nFolks are vacating Twitter.  They just aren't leaving for FriendFeed (at least not in the droves that are being purported). Twitter's traffic and unique visitor counts aren't just leveling off... they're dropping. All the major metrics point to an evacuation: Alexa, Google Trends, and Quantcast.  Compete's analysis doesn't show up to the day stats for people counts, but the following velocity trend graph shows some very negative numbers:\n\nI've expressed my displeasure with the decline service here and there over the last couple weeks, most recently in response to an Google Share by MG Siegler (I responded on FriendFeed, of course).  MG had noted that, after a week, Twitter seemed to realize that it was a problem that the replies still weren't working, and was pointing people to Summize for a workaround.  I said \"I hate having to rely on the web version of Twitter, first of all, then having the reply tab bork, and THEN having to go to summize, and hit reply there and pray that twitter works. It's why I only check Twitter once or twice a day now.\"\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt seems that I'm not alone. This time it isn't just hype - Twitter is in trouble. The point was made earlier today that Jon Stewart's brief mention of Twitter could be the height of its existence. I certainly hope that they get on the right track soon, because it would be a shame to lose an otherwise great service."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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