The Twitter Ballad: “Twitter come back!”

Written on May 19, 2008 – 10:15 pm
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur

A lot of people are questioning Twitter and its lack of a businessplan. They complain ‘Yeah, it is kinda cool but how are they ever going to make money?’ Let me tell you this: if you host a service that makes people write desperate songs about you when you go down you’ve got it made. Watch and weep:

Lyrics (So you can sing along!):

Spend all my nights and all my mornings going out of my mind
Doing anything I can to get you working again

When the errors come I get back to starting again
Trying to forget you is just a waste of time

CHORUS

Twitter come back
Any kind of fool could see
There was something really wrong with cha

Twitter come back
Ruby or PHP
I was robbed and I just can’t live without ya

All day long I keep hitting the refresh button
Trying to get my followers to see me
As the errors come I get that sick feeling again
How I wish to god that you were working one more time again

CHORUS

Twitter come back
Any kind of fool could see
There was something really wrong with cha

Twitter come back
Ruby or PHP
I was robbed and I just can’t live without ya

Now that I’ve put it all together
I sure hope that you will see
That you’ve used up all your free credits
With me, oh yes, with me, yea with me!

CHORUS

Twitter come back
Any kind of fool could see
There was something really wrong with cha

Twitter come back
Ruby or PHP
I was robbed and I just can’t live without ya

I hope you like that post!

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11 comments/trackbacks to “The Twitter Ballad: “Twitter come back!””

May 20, 2008: Control your offline world with Twitter!
[...] I posted a video of Allen Stern from Centernetworks singing a Twitter Ballad titled “Twitter Come Back“. In my opinion stuff like that, silly as it looks, is proof of customer loyalty that most [...]

By Titanas on May 19, 2008

This is so insane, demonstrating twitter’s power, influence and how important the service is. Who needs a business plan when has users like this dude and us watching Twitter Come Back!

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By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on May 20, 2008

Twitter seems to be down (still OR again) so who can record another song?

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By Doron on May 20, 2008

this dude should go for a run in the park instead of waiting for twitter to get back online.

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By Doron on May 20, 2008

By the way; is this dude Allen Stern from CenterNetworks??

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By Frank Schuil on May 20, 2008

Hahaha, nice.

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By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on May 20, 2008

@Doron a walk in the park would be a good idea but is impossible because they don’t have wi-fi there… ;-)

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By allen on May 21, 2008

Yes Doron - it’s me Allen from CN - thanks for the compliment about my size. I’ll remember that the next time you email me to write about your site!

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By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on May 21, 2008

Hi Allen, I love you!

I hope you remember that the next time you write about our site!

;-)

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By Titanas on May 21, 2008

allen, don’t you think you’ll have any copyright issues with the song?

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By allen on May 21, 2008

lol boris! :)

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