The people behind twitter never cease to amaze me with seemingly bad decisions, but the true die-hard “twits” don’t seem to mind the bumpy ride that I find rather frustrating.

The lack of solid scalability planning in twitters platform causes enough downtime to spawn sites, groups and even products surrounding the social utility’s iconic “Fail Whale” that is displayed when the site is inaccessible.

As I logged in tonight, I see that there is system maintenance planned for 6pm PST on July 4th. I think that even the most useless sites on the internet don’t do maintenance on major holidays. What adds insult to injury is that twitter’s main function is intended to let people know what you are up to. A lot of “twits” will be stagnant for 2 hours while they wait for twitter to come back online to find out where the best fireworks gathering is taking place.