Chances are, if you use Twitter heavily like I do, you noticed all kinds of weird things over the past several days. Twitter did some maintenance Friday night, which isn't all that unusual. After that maintenance, most people's updates were not showing up properly on people's timelines. The way this manifested itself was that Twitter appeared quiet-almost too quiet.

Once they sorted out the issues, all the updates started flooding in. Problem was, they were out of order and, by the time they showed up, several days old. It looked like someone sneezed all over my timeline!

Finally, on Monday night before I went to bed, I noticed Twitter starting to look normal. It appeared to be so today.

Having been on Twitter before the SXSW invasion in 2006, and back when it was called Twttr, I have seen a number of these growing pains. It goes with the territory of this service.