Everybody complains about Twitter's constant downtime problems.  It was down during the Macworld keynote address.  It was down this past weekend (I think).  As a non-user of the service, the one thing I always read about Twitter is its constant downtime issues and its scalability woes. 

I have a pretty simple solution:  STOP USING TWITTER.  For reasons still unknown to me, many people have adopted Twitter as one of their top three must-haves, right after email and RSS feeds.  What with the growing number of other solutions to the non-existent problem of keeping up to date with minute details of your friends' and acquaintances' daily lives, there are other boats in the ocean besides Twitter's (Jaiku and Pownce to name two).  And by rejecting their service, you'll be giving them the exact feedback they need and deserve:  Figure out how to scale up or host your service, and then look for users.  Don't gain a bunch of users and then scramble to figure out how to keep your website working.  If Digg can do it, if Flickr can do it, if del.icio.us can do it, then you can do it.  Jaiku would be my top choice because Google just bought it.  When was the last time Google had downtime problems?