Speaking as a guy who spends more time with a Twitter window open that he might like to admit, I am going to go with the crowd here in expressing my frustration at just how much down time Twitter has seen as of late. To put it bluntly, it sucks.

While using Twitter is all fun and games for most, there are number of users who actually make their livings using social networks. And lately, doing this has been all but impossible!

But what is interesting is the fact that the traffic spikes are not coming from the kind of sources we might have once expected. No, this time it seems like folks older than 40 are really driving Amazon’s S3 into overdrive with higher numbers than I would have ever expected to see. Could it be CNN and the economic team there continuing to tell the unemployed to use Twitter when networking for work? Perhaps, but regardless of why, one thing is for sure – Twitter is no longer another MySpace filled with kids wasting time.