Twitter Has a Great Week|PCWorld
Boy, did I pick an interesting week in which to join Twitter: First I join up (@twailgum) last Thursday. The very next day someone named Oprah Winfrey goes out there and steals all my thunder.The nerve!The Twitter world was abuzz when Ashton Kutcher finally bested CNN in their duel to first reach 1 million followers. Then, of course, Twitter’s servers had to work extra hard to keep up with the media-enabled crush of new Tweeters like me-soccer moms, book clubbers, yo-yo dieters and other curious folks wondering what this whole Twitter thing is all about.The resulting “Oprah Effect” on Twitter’s back-end operations caused a couple of issues for users. During my first six days, for instance, my profile page displayed just one icon out of the numerous people I was following: Professional golfer Stewart Cink.Though I wasn’t alone (Twitter’s help page noted this kind of problem was pervasive), I felt as though it made me look some kind of a stalker of professional golfers named Stewart.
