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There was a lot of tweeting on twitter today about twiddict. (Try saying that after a late and liquid night celebrating a friend’s 50th birthday.) The premise of twiddict is that it saves your tweets when twitter is down and then posts them when twitter resurfaces. On the face of it, this sounds helpful.

I won’t be using it, however. When twitter is down I get frustrated, like most people. But for me, one of the joys of twitter is the truly ephemeral nature of it. I don’t scroll back through pages of tweets to discover what I’ve missed while I’ve been away from my desk. And I don’t try to make sure everyone I know has seen a tweet of mine by sending them a direct message instead. On top of that, the beauty of tweets are surely their spontaneity. If I’m having to sit and think about a tweet, the only honest tweet I can add to twitter is: “sitting and thinking about a tweet”. And when twitter comes back up, the last thing I want to do is to catch up on reams of tweets that are no longer current.

Twiddict is obviously a bit of fun on the part of its team of Belgian creators. Basing its service offering on the continuing failure of twitter to scale successfully is probably not a long-term business plan. If Twidict becomes an essential tool for twitter users, I suspect that twitter will no longer need to worry about scaling and Twiddict may have to evolve into FriendFeedict instead.

For a slightly more positive spin on twiddict, take a look at Stan Schroeder’s post at Mashable.

Tags: Mashable, Stan Schroeder, twiddict, Twitter