Can Twitter Survive the Downtime?
The website that I've visited the most the past few days is Is Twitter Down?
It's no secret that Twitter has had numerous outages lately. It's hit or miss at any moment as to whether the site will be up.
The timing was not great for me. Along with Larry Schwartz, Ed Keating and John Blossom, I've tried to get attendees at this week's SIIA NetGain conference to livetwitter the event.
The composite stream of our tweets is now available as an RSS feed (thanks to Larry and the Newstex team).
Twitter has had tremendous growth (at least on the two coasts), purely coming via word of mouth from the digerati. Unfortunately for them, the barrier to entry would not be very high. If they can't get the uptime problems solved quickly, I fear that Google or another will step in and take their position.
The team at Twitter is clearly aware of their precarious position as shown in this blog post.
At the same time, posting quotes like this doesn't instill confidence among your users:
It's no secret that Twitter has had numerous outages lately. It's hit or miss at any moment as to whether the site will be up.
The timing was not great for me. Along with Larry Schwartz, Ed Keating and John Blossom, I've tried to get attendees at this week's SIIA NetGain conference to livetwitter the event.
The composite stream of our tweets is now available as an RSS feed (thanks to Larry and the Newstex team).
Twitter has had tremendous growth (at least on the two coasts), purely coming via word of mouth from the digerati. Unfortunately for them, the barrier to entry would not be very high. If they can't get the uptime problems solved quickly, I fear that Google or another will step in and take their position.
The team at Twitter is clearly aware of their precarious position as shown in this blog post.
At the same time, posting quotes like this doesn't instill confidence among your users:
The issue that we experienced today is actually not related to the problem we experienced yesterday. In turn, these two problems do not share the same cause with the downtime we experienced last week. At root is the database, but the cause is differentvia @lfschwartz and @mashable, something to keep you occupied while waiting for Twitter to come back up - the video of Allen Stern's "Twitter Come Back"
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