Musing and Gadgets

I started using Topify over a year ago.  Topify connects with your Twitter account and sends you email when someone follows you, allows you to block someone easily and advises you of direct messages by email.  For awhile it worked really well, however back in August it stopped working.  One day I realized that I hadn't gotten any twitter follow notifications and it had been at least a week.  Now, I am not the most popular person on Twitter , but I usually get at least 1 request a day.  So I thought it was odd, but figured maybe I had just reached my plateau, and ignored it.  Then another week past and still nothing, at that point I knew there was something wrong.  So I went to Topify and sure enough there had been a glich in the system and I had to re-add my information to Topify and reconnect it to Twitter.  

For awhile it worked again, then I realized about a week ago again I was not getting any request again.  It was getting a little irritating, not to say embarrassing to think that someone had requested to follow me and I never knew it.  So again I went to Topify, but this time there was no notification that there had been a glich in the system.  I tried to reconnect Twitter and Topify again, but never received the confirmation email. Finally I decided the irritation far out weight the worth and removed my account from Topify.  I also updated my account on Twitter to my correct email address.  

I was still a little mad when I went to bed, blaming Topify for the problem, and was going to write them a note in the morning.  However as I was going to sleep, I realized that I had updated my password on Twitter a couple of weeks ago and that the problem may not have been Topify problem at all, but an error on my part.   So I would like to apologize to Topify for anything bad I thought about them.  I am still not sure I will reconnect Topify again, because I am pretty sure I will do the same thing again, next time I have to change something on Twitter.  This is not a problem with Topify, but the end user (thats me).  Have you ever blamed an application or gadget for not working only to realize afterward that it was an error you had made, how did you feel and what did you do if anything.