Listen, no one loves a good backlash of previously trumpeted anything more than us. But according to The Observer, the reason Twitter is going to fail is the many incidents of Fail Whale, i.e. too many users joining too quickly. Wouldn't that be a sign of Twitter's success as a social networking program, if not a technological manna? We'd like to see the Twitter backlash begin not over their shaky start-up technology (hey, if the site's growing too fast for the servers to keep up, that's a good thing, right?), but over the social ramifications of feeling "closer" to celebrities like Samantha Ronson and Jimmy Fallon, just because we can read their asinine Tweets.

Even worse, the way they seem to feel closer to each other without ever having to have a conversation. And if celebrities are using this tool to exponentially increase their lack of contact from the world while keeping up the illusion that they're plugged in, what does that say about us? CNN's recent Twitter competition with Ashton? Are we really going to take that shit seriously now. Hey, @aplusk ; /wrists.