Comments on: Twitter’s struggles harm more than just the users

By: edhardy622

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By: bill

bill — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:37:28 +0000

There are more and more social networking sites popping up every week. What ever happened to frienster? Facebook put them at the bottom of the map.

By: Twitter isn’t failing on purpose, but it’s still failing » VentureBeat

Wed, 21 May 2008 02:34:54 +0000

[...] A growing number of other services rely on Twitter for their own services. When it goes down, they all go [...]

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Much atwitter about nothing? » VentureBeat — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:46:59 +0000

[...] There are already dozens, if not hundreds, of examples of interesting 3rd party apps being built on top of Twitter, and more pop up everyday. That is why it is important that Twitter gets its scaling and downtime issues in check. It’s not just the users who are relying on the service, other businesses and services are being built on top of it. [...]

By: Blaine Cook leaves Twitter, takes the service with him » VentureBeat

Blaine Cook leaves Twitter, takes the service with him » VentureBeat — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:00:09 +0000

[...] There are larger ramifications as well when Twitter has issues. Many services and business are starting to use Twitter as a key component of what they do. When Twitter goes down, it hurts [...]

By: Ads in Twitter streams? What’s next, ads on boxer’s backs? » VentureBeat

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:31:22 +0000

[...] has greatly improved its service uptime in the past few months after multiple mishaps (our coverage). Now, if it could only figure out that pesky search [...]

By: FriendFeed gains search. Hey Twitter, where’s your search? » VentureBeat

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:16:33 +0000

[...] search capabilities before Twitter does, perhaps we should be worried for the service after all (our coverage). Tags: co:Friendfeed, co:Twitter SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “FriendFeed gains search. Hey [...]

By: Twitter was indeed “this year’s Twitter” at SXSW 2008 » VentureBeat

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:19:34 +0000

[...] many users had suffered through the past several months with the service’s downtime woes (our coverage). Tags: co:Friendfeed, co:Twitter SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Twitter was indeed “this [...]

By: Will you be my Twitter Valentine? » VentureBeat

Will you be my Twitter Valentine? » VentureBeat — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:56:46 +0000

[...] Twitter, down on and off most of the day – as has seemingly become the norm in recent weeks (our coverage) – came back online with a new feature just for Valentine’s day. Valentine [...]

By: The Pain of Being Down and Out | Mark Evans

The Pain of Being Down and Out | Mark Evans — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:11:29 +0000

[...] VentureBeat talks about how Twitter’s problems are impacting other Twitter-related companies, while Dave [...]

By: alan jones

alan jones — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:42:19 +0000

Nobody in the social messaging space likes to see such a prominent player take such a big hit in reliability and reputation. We’re looking forward to reporting a 100% uptime result for http://www.bluepulse.com through the weekend.

Oh, don’t forget Super Tuesday is next week.

Meanwhile, best wishes to the Twitter team – hope you get it all sorted out soon.

By: Brij

Brij — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:36:51 +0000

MG,

To Twitter’s defense supporting millions of user all over the world, supporting nearly thousand API partners (including MessageDance) is not an easy job.
More so when business model question is running ahead of adoption curve. As a business venture, they have to justify the expense as well.

Though MessageDance ,unfairly, got positioned as competitor to Twitter (all we do is to transform email and generate 140 char tweet output), we do provide infrastructure assistance to Twitter ecosystem by supporting offline Twitter status updates. Today when Twitter was down, users were posting tweets on MessageDance website.

Eric posted about us on VentureBeat ( http://tinyurl.com/2fkpd8 )

-Brij

By: Nathan Schmidt

Nathan Schmidt — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:01:46 +0000

What’s more fun is when all these little microsites, widget-things, video hosts and life stream plays get plowed under due to a lack of compelling revenue models, leaving a mess of interdependent, broken web 2.0 services. “Lower operating costs” isn’t enough to keep all the also-rans afloat, especially if the attention span of the principals wanes with a slowing economy. Brutal.

By: MG Siegler

MG Siegler — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:37:33 +0000

@anon – certainly that is still very much an element of the service, but it does seem to be growing beyond that in many regards.

@mike – that’s a great point, I hope they clear it up as well.

@roland – yeah I know quite a few people who feel your pain.

By: Roland Smith

Roland Smith — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:33:35 +0000

Twitter has become a very useful part of my social network. When Twitter is down, we are definitely impacted.