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...lestones kept passing like signposts on the Interstate.

And that's when things started to go wrong.

Despite global warming the winter was harsh, and so was her daily supply of Twitter. At first it was an occasional outage in the middle of the night, and she rarely noticed. But as winter grew colder, so did Twitter's ongoing failures. First an hour here or there, then nearly whole days, least that's how it thought to Melissa.

By spring the situation had become untenable. People started jokingly writing posts noting when Twitter was up, as opposed to down. Another SXSW has passed, and there was a new player in town, not a direct competitor, but a service that offered reliable communication where Twitter had miserably failed.

As the sun shone through the open window, Melissa tilted her Macbook Pro just so slightly as to reduce the glare. FriendFeed was her new love, and it had slowly come to substitute her previously obsessional dedication to Twitter.

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