I know I (and everyone else) has beaten the “twitter is down” horse to death, but I’ve been watching with interest to see if that old adage–that it takes two weeks to break a habit– will come true for users of twitter. It’s now approaching the two week mark for the latest round of instability on the instant message/social communication service (which started to go on the blink somewhere around May 18th or 19th). Lots of people have compared the twitter service to addiction, so just around now (if the twitter instability doesn’t settle out soon) — there’s a million Twitter users collectively starting to suffer from addictive withdrawal from the service. Already, among many folks I know there’s been a mass migration of folks experimenting with other twitter-like and instant messaging applications; given that you now see “twitter is having technical difficulties” or “twitter is overloaded” messages every other time you hit the site, I wouldn’t be surprised if all those twitter users just collectively log off in a few days and never come back.

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