Twitter Overload

I love coming up with new ways to demonstrate the power of Twitter.

With such a massive network of users, it\’s fun the push the boundaries and see what is possible.

I decided I would make myself available to anyone who wanted to interact. I had to set aside time to do this because its just not possible to answer every @ reply that comes your way.

So around 2:20 pm MDT today, I decided to try a Twitter experiment.

I tweeted the following…

The @ replies came in fast and furious.

I quickly realized I would need Tweetdeck to manage them all.

I was replying to 4-6 tweets per minute, sometimes looking for a site to reference and sometimes just replying with a few words.

It was challenging trying to keep up!

I went for about 45 minutes, and when I went to talley up how many tweets I replied to, I realized that my replies had stopped posting approximately 15 minutes earlier!

Since I was using Tweetdeck, I didn\’t see the limit notifications.

But when I use Twitter.com, I was greeted with this message…

So I probably tweeted 50 times into thin air!

I\’m sorry for those who didn\’t see my @ reply and thought I was ignoring you. I wasn\’t. Twitter was mean to me.

Want to read more about Twitter\’s limitations?

Click here

Anyhow, it was a fun experiment that obviously can\’t be accomplished to the degree that I would want. But Twitter still rules.

NOTE: After I wrote this post I attempted to tweet about it. It was THREE HOURS before I could tweet again!