twitout

I received a few emails about my twit-out post and I figured while I don't won't post the address of the posters I would answer them publicly.  If you want to comment on my blog, please use comments and not email.  Thanks!

Subject: This is why!

Sean-

Twitter is down right now.  This is why we need to have a boycott.  Get it now?

<name redacted>

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Subject: It's not hard why don't you get it

We're protesting to get twitter fix their *%^!. 

<name redacted>

Some posts this evening about a twitter boycott scheduled for 5/21 to protest the outages at twitter.  Where I'm all for protests that have some meaning, I really don't understand this one.  As far as I'm concerned a protest makes sense when a company's customers feel that the company is willfully mistreating them.  A perfect example of this is the livejournal protest from last month.  LJ users felt that adding adverting without notifying them was unfair and protested.  Whether the protest was successful or not, is another question, not for this post.