I was recently talking to the Yipit team on why I have no desire to take funding – and part of it was that it took away my ability to try out new stuff.

So to help out a friend, I’ve been playing around with the Twitter.com and its various API methods. When filing an IP whitelist request, what I thought would take days was pleasantly approved in 24 hours.

So while playing around with it, and their OAuth method, I came across a confusing bug – and after an hour of trying to figure out what the hell it was, I went to the forums. And it turned out to be a real nasty bug. A bug they deemed critical. And with that single click (the bug wasn’t just High Priority – it was Critical) I moved from the pantheon of the masses to the select few to make Twitter.com run around and try to figure out what went wrong.

But that really wasn’t the point. Twitter API support was fast. Blazing fast. Withing moments Doug and Matt were on it, and within 5 minutes of filing the bug it was claimed.

Twitter.com may be maddeningly slow at times, but I can see why so many apps around Twitter as springing up – those guys kick ass in making sure everything is being taken care of.