In what is becoming an altogether too common occurance lately, Twitter is down, this time due to the Republican Primary debate on this evening.  Twitter has been going down more and more frequently in recent weeks. Steve Jobs took it down during the keynote.  It went down during the President’s last State of the Union Address. It has been down for short periods of time due to the flooding in California (I’m told, I wasn’t on to experience that one).

We were told that Twitter hired a new Veep to prevent these sorts of things from happening. It doesn’t look like he’s found the magic solution yet.

This is getting to be a bit past the point of annoying, and I’m starting to feel my loyalties begin to shift a bit.  I haven’t weighed in yet on the logistical conversation that’s been forming around the use of Automattic’s new Prologue tool as a distributed replacement for Twitter, as I am a loyal user of the socnets that I like, and I’ve been in love with Twitter since a few weeks after I started using it.

The problem here is that every time Twitter is about to be at its most useful, it disappears on me. I’m starting to understand what it must be like to be friends with Clark Kent – except there is no Superman swooping in to save Twitter in times of disaster.

Count me in, though.  If Twitter wants to join the discussion on how to make the service distributed, I’m sure they’d be more than welcome at the table.  I’m certain I’m not the only one feeling a bit abused here, so the conversation is definitely going to occur with or without Twitter.

Perhaps most frustrating is the fact that my littlest son is just learning to crawl, and getting into all sorts of trouble.  I wanted to tweet that.  Now I can’t (so Mashable readers are now punished with that information!).

See what you made me do, Twitter?

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