I admit their "Something's technically wrong here" error was getting old, and they needed to address the issues that have made that message so pervasive lately.

I admit their "Something's technically wrong here" error was getting old, and they needed to address the issues that have made that message so pervasive lately. So they did (if indirectly). But people like to act like Twitter owes them something. Fact is, it's a free service. In the spirit of building their business they clearly want -- in fact they need -- to build the best product they can; the fact that it's taking too long by our estimation doesn't matter. They're not going to leave money on the table so you can believe they're working hard to fix the problem and start working on their revenue model. Kudos to the Twitter team for returning critical volleys from some in the tech community without losing their cool.