This is a question that I haven’t had to ask myself in…years! I kind of forgot about the days when the Twitter Fail Whale made appearances often. And yet, here I am in 2012, completely surprised that I do not have a way to connect with my followers.

Now to be fair, I actually hadn’t realized Twitter was down until a friend G-chatted me and asked if I could tweet, because he couldn’t. It wasn’t until that moment that I suddenly had SO much that needed to be said…Immediately.

Since that moment, I have done the same thing that many others did: turned to Facebook to update my status to let the world know that I was aware that Twitter was, in fact, down. I have read through all my friend’s status updates from the past 3 days, updated my Facebook profile photo, and started adding more photos to my Pinterest food board.

With so many other social networks to turn to, I am at a loss which to turn to!

On Facebook I could:

· Go through my privacy settings

· Clean up and manage my subscriptions

· Unlike some of the brands I have liked due to work

On Pinterest I could:

· Create more organized boards

· Follow creative people and pin projects I will never attempt

On Google+ I could:

· Actually log in and poke around

· Create a hangout with friends

· Add people to cirlces

· Post something about Twitter being down and ask if anyone knows why

On my blog:

· Queue up some posts

· Work on formatting

· Update WordPress

In Gmail

· Attempt to get to inbox zero

· Unsubscribe from the million Group-esque sites that I never open

All in all, I guess I should start being productive instead of hitting refresh on Twitter until something loads. Or maybe I’ll just keep pushing “reload”…

What do you do when Twitter goes down?