Kvetch! Let It All Out on Twitter

by Scott Beale on November 19, 2008 · 5 comments

Kvetch!

After a 6 year hiatus, Derek Powazek has re-launched his website Kvetch!, which now allows people to post their grips and complaints anonymously via Twitter.

You know all those things you wish you could post to Twitter but don’t want to say with your name on them? Those brilliant angry complaints that would feel so good to get off your chest? Now you can.

Kvetch is an anonymous oracle of complaint. Kvetches are displayed randomly and anonymously. There are no permalinks and no search mechanism. Just enjoy the moment.

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1 Derek Powazek November 19, 2008 at 11:40 am

Hey thanks for posting this, Scott! Just to clarify, Kvetch went offline in 2002, so it's only been on hiatus for six years, but this is the decade anniversary since it last relaunched in 1998.

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2 Scott Beale November 19, 2008 at 12:10 pm

Ah ok, I've updated the post.

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3 Xopl November 19, 2008 at 1:33 pm

They use the term “anonymous” pretty loosely:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Kvetch

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4 Derek Powazek November 19, 2008 at 4:01 pm

Those are not the kvetches that get displayed on kvetch.com. We only display the ones that are sent to us via direct message – they're not searchable.

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5 Xopl November 20, 2008 at 11:34 am

Good to know, thanks.

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