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VentureBeat: Obligatory post about Twitter being down yet again

  • ontarioemperor · 1 year ago
    Actually, Twitter wouldn't say, "It's not you, it's me."

    Twitter wouldn't say anything.

    Twitter is the strong, silent type. Well, maybe not strong.
  • MG Siegler · 1 year ago
    I think Twitter has been cheating behind my back, you appear to know it better than me...
  • centernetworks · 1 year ago
    MG - my question is really around what happens to the apps that now depend on Twitter for their viability?
    http://www.centernetworks.com/twitter-down-api-...

    Last night summize demo'ed in front of 600 ny'ers and now it's not "live" anymore because the conversations are down.
  • MG Siegler · 1 year ago
    Allen - yes that's becoming a bigger and bigger issue, I wrote about it as well a few months ago.

    http://venturebeat.com/2008/01/31/twitters-stru...
  • centernetworks · 1 year ago
    nice post - maybe twitter shouldn't have become a platform so quickly
  • Gunnar Östergren · 1 year ago
    I feel for the pour souls slaving away at twitter. But, having built similar systems in the past I know it can be done so ... have faith. Hopefully they have both the brainpower and capital to pull through. If not, maybe it's time someone built a competing back-end for all the users, apps and services out there who depends on it. Or maybe not, is there actually a revenue model that works here?
  • sengseng · 1 year ago
    maybe twitter is just playing hard to get...
  • MG Siegler · 1 year ago
    That is quite true I believe.
  • smbeebe · 1 year ago
    twitter needs to manage their IT investments wisely NOW as their product stands to loose customer confidence. They must vastly improve their management of twitter application operations; especially their API code, database, app threading and caching as they have serious performance related outages. So sad that twitter IT management didn't scale this environment capacity to match their burgeoning customer demand.
  • Albert · 1 year ago
    Twitter is having insane spasms lately - what is going on with their infrastructure?

    A more interesting question I always wonder about too is... how does Twitter generate revenue? Maybe they could use some of that for new servers, even though their reliability is well over 99%!
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