catfish

So I have this twitter account that is about 4 years old and recently the original domain that we used for email was put to rest. Of course I am a bonehead for not changing the email address in twitter before the domain expired, but frankly I set the account up so long ago, I never considered it would be an issue to let it go and then edit my twitter account when the new email domain was ready to go.

Anyway I went into twitter on New Years to update the address, and changed it. As soon as the screen updated I got an over capacity message. No, problem it happens.

Next day try to login and no luck. Still over capacity.

5 days later, and around a 100 attempts to login later by me, my staff, two friends, and a small dog, still getting the over capacity message.

So that is when the true insanity begins.

I contact twitter and of course they said, reset your password. BUT, the password WORKS. How do I know this? I update twitter from a third party provider who will remain nameless so as not to make this post seem a commercial plug. We send out about 30 messages a day through this provider, and it has a real nice interface that lets us queue up a ton of tweets ahead of time.

I went into that account and reauthorized my twitter account with NO ISSUES using the exact same account name and password I have used for YEARS. No problem.

So I says to Twitter, Account Name and Password WORK FINE. I am AFRAID to reset it because the original email address is no longer available, and besides I tried to change it 9 days ago anyway, to the NEW Address when something went terribly wrong.

And now every stinking time I login I get a frigging OVER CAPACITY SCREEN.

So of course the next message from the twitter help bot is "your browser is outta date, update it". I use CHROME.

And so I login again with THE LATEST GOOGLE CHROME UPDATE WHICH OF COURSE IS ALWAYS THE LATEST FRIGGING UPDATE CUZ GOOGLE UPDATES IT WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT and...

AND,

wait for it....

Twitter is OVER CAPACITY.

So then I send twitter a request that says, "Hey! How about you take this UN/PW of mine and login in with it and see what you get. I know its good because I am able to connect through this third party service, where I just tweeted about this entire episode, (included the tweets) and the LOGIN WORKS JUST FINE...

And guess what they sent back.

"Please request a NEW PASSWORD"

OMG someone please shoot me now...

This account has about 6000 followers. At least 50% are not hookers, or MLM sales freaks, or how to get a million twitter follower liars, and I would still like to "OWN" the account. It has a real nice name that I like. But for some damn reason that escapes me, Twitter is:

OVER CAPACITY....

Ugh....

INSANE IN THE MEMBRANE...