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Or at least that's how it appears to me, now two weeks without being indexed, with this recent update to a Twitter Support report regarding people missing from People Search and regular Twitter Search:

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I'm currently dealing with a Big F**king Crisis on Twitter. Given the importance of real-time search, and the way Twitter Search has become its poster child, the fact that my tweets newer than June 30 haven't been showing up in searches has really been driving me crazy.

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So, I just found out that my mobile service provider, Telus, is now on Twitter! Not only that, but they're asking Telus users on Twitter if they want full SMS support again, like Bell customers have. The only problem is that if you want to say yes, you need to be followed by Telus. Why? Because they want responses via direct message.

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If you're involved in social networking and you've not heard about the Ashton Kutcher/CNN showdown, you should probably check yourself for a pulse. In a nutshell, Kutcher has promised to prank Ted Turner if his Twitter account, @aplusk, makes it to 1 million followers before @cnnbrk (which, prior to this week, wasn't even owned by CNN). Even with the stuff Kutcher is promising if he wins, this is still rank stupidity.

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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.

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I've been taken to task for my post earlier this week about tweet protection being meaningless. It turns out that the person whose tweets lead to the article toggles protection on and off, and apparently quite frequently. But that begs the question: If you're turning protection on and off, why bother having it on in the first place? And if you just straight-up have it on, why are you bothering with Twitter in the first place?

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Do you protect your updates on Twitter? Well, don't bother. Thanks to the magic that is Twitter Search, the whole world can see what you tweet with little trouble, whether you protect your tweets or not.

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Twitter is a great platform for making short announcements, or to send a quick reply to one. But as a conversation platform, Twitter is sorely lacking. And yet people keep trying, and then take offense when others point out the obvious – that Twitter conversations are awkward, hard to follow, and unnecessary, thanks to services like FriendFeed.

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Have you heard of Dreamhost? It's a company offering inexpensive web hosting options. A lot of organizations use Dreamhost to host their websites and provide email services, among other things. This website, too, is hosted by them. Unfortunately, their service record is far from good, but they've usually kept everyone up to date whenever there were problems.

Guess what? They aren't doing that right now, and customers are angry. And they're talking.

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Despite all the people who claim it's best to automatically follow everyone who follows you on Twitter, there's still a lot of people, myself included, who find its better to vet each follower and decide whether to follow them or not. Of course, it's not always easy to determine if a follower has been checked out or not. That is, until recently, when a new service, Tweepler, was launched.