Feed Your Twitter Addiction With Twiddict

Hi, I'm Leslie, and I'm a Twitterholic. I am on Twitter all day, every day. It has become my constant companion on my MacBook and my phone/PDA. It feeds my need for constant stimulation to help keep me focused, as I work best when multitasking.

I am not one of the people who freak out if Twitter is down for a moment, but I do miss it when it is gone. If you are one of the people who need their Twitter fix 24/7, regardless of downtime issues or server fixes, Twiddict may be the solution you seek.

Twiddict follows the KISS method of web applications and web sites: Keep It Simple, Stupid. This site does one thing, and does it well. If Twitter is down (and there really is no "if" in that scenario, only "when"), you can use Twiddict to stay in touch without having to keep yourself tied to the refresh button on your browser or phone.

The sole purpose of this site is to keep Twitter users happy during a Twitter outage by allowing them to send a tweet that will appear the moment the service is back in action. It is reminiscent of other sites, like TweetLater, that offer delayed tweeting. It differs from TweetLater in that instead of being an obvious marketing tool it is more of a safety net.

With TweetLater users can schedule tweets to "drop" at user generated intervals throughout the day or week. This means you look active on Twitter when you aren't really investing your own time and energy to be personal and accessible.

Twiddict is a bit of a different slant on that in that you don't get to pick and choose when your tweets will appear. It is entirely dependent on Twitter coming back online to work. It is there to get your tweets out of your system and stop those little thoughts from clogging your head, 140 characters at a time.

Will I use Twiddict? I think I will. I often think of tweets while Twitter is down, and it would be nice to get them out there and into the wild. Even more fun is seeing them pop up randomly once Twitter's Fail Whale goes back to bed. Twiddict helps make a Twitter outage feel more like a game, and not a disaster, and I love that about this easy, no-nonsense site.