What sort of fucking error message is this? Despite my firm conviction that Twitter is, well, pointless, I am beginning to use it more because it’s less mundane and tedious than my average day at my current contract. This morning I was greeted by this error message. All well and good and it’s nice that they’ve bothered to put an error message up.

BUT

Read what it says: “The site should kick itself back into gear in a few seconds”. I don’t know what time the site went down and I’m guessing that it only went back up again a short while ago (seeing as how Pix’s first twitter was “stops twitching and commence twittering” entered not so long ago). That means that, in fact, it’s been at least 3 hours - possibly more - since it became unavailable. Saying that it will be up “in a few seconds” and even providing a link to click on to try to reload the page is bad form. Very bad form. It is misleading at best and manipulative at worst.

I don’t care that the site was unavailable - I just don’t like inappropriate messages like that which are blatantly untrue. There’s nothing wrong with saying “available soon” or “until further notice”. A message saying “click here to get in now” when it’s simply not possible is just heinous.

That is all.