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We all know that Twitter has jumped the shark. The recent additions of the suggested users list, the influx of celebrity and brand accounts (and all the silent, creepy stalker accounts that follow them), and the incredible gaming of the friend/follower system demonstrates that quite clearly. But that's not why I say it's time to take our tweets and go elsewhere.

Jesse Stay details the reason behind my statement on his blog quite well. Twitter has returned to being frequently broken. And when it's working, it overly limits users who prefer 3rd party services or SMS for posting tweets.

Not only that, but when problems are reported with the service, there's practically no real feedback about the problems at all! For an example, I and many other Canadians have had problems with SMS tweets being reposted multiple times by Twitter. At no time has Twitter even acknowledged the problem, which spans users of every mobile service provider in the country.

There are other services out there providing the same features (or more!) than Twitter, who make sure that problems are solved, reports are replied to, and that everyone is happy. I prefer the up and coming Blellow myself, but perhaps you might enjoy Identi.ca or one of the other microblogging platforms. In any case, it might be time for those of us who enjoy being early adopters and drivers of technology to move on and leave Twitter to its troubles.