Amazon is Down-own-own-own (Echoooooo)

Today is a rare day. Amazon.com has been down for over 2 hours.

For those of you who may read this, and have either a sense of deja vu', or a desire to throw something at me... I will predict that you frequent Twitter to a certain degree.

Now that is more interesting to me than my beloved book dealer being out of my favorite smack.

I have done a rare thing the last hour or so. I have watched the Twitter feed regarding Amazon being down. My feelings about Twitter are very much justified. EVERYONE has something to say....and next to NO ONE is actually listening.

How do I know? Easy. Every other tweet on there was either informing us that Amazon is down, or asking if anyone is having the same issue of Amazon seeming to be down. Every other tweet...for the last two hours.

All anyone had to do to actually find out IF Amazon were down, or if anyone else had noticed a problem with Amazon...would be to do a search in Twitter for recent tweets regarding Amazon...and MAGIC!!! Multiple tweets confirming the issue already in existence!

But no. That is not what Tweeters actually DO apparantly. They must tweet their query (regardless of how many times it's been tweeted prior), because it's the TWEETING that is important, not the content of the tweet, or even the answer to the supposed "query". And I say supposed query...because I ask a lot of questions myself...then I google for the answer. See I seek answers before considering asking the world at large, because I'm fairly certain (and never been wrong yet) that I'm never the First Person to EVER ask something.

I could only watch the Twitter feed on this for a couple hours. And to be honest, even by then I was feeling a bit drop-kicky towards most of the people on there. Some of them posited interesting ideas, like musing about how much money on average Amazon was losing by being down (and a couple folk looked like they'd actually sought out the answer). But most tweets were of the two types I already mentioned. Which said pretty clearly to me that people were more focused on tweeting, than reading existing tweets on the subject.

The repitition created a textual cacophony that in truth, is still making my head hurt a little.

I'm just not a Twitter fan.