Comments on: Obligatory post about Twitter being down yet again

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By: Caterpillar Cone: The new Fail Whale for Twitter? » VentureBeat

Caterpillar Cone: The new Fail Whale for Twitter? » VentureBeat — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:27:26 +0000

[...] has been having issues all day today (you know, just like the good old days). But right now, instead of the typical Fail Whale picture (shown when Twitter is down), there is a [...]

By: A swap atop Twitter for the “new phase” » VentureBeat

A swap atop Twitter for the “new phase” » VentureBeat — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:46:17 +0000

[...] growth has been impressive this year. It’s particularly impressive given the problems with downtime the micro-messaging service had for several months during the late spring/early summer. If any time [...]

By: Chicken Little, the cloud is falling » VentureBeat

Chicken Little, the cloud is falling » VentureBeat — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:00:12 +0000

[...] with a high failure rate are of course unacceptable. But I would hardly put Gmail in that category. Twitter was there a few months ago, but the company understood that, and has done a good job correcting those issues. If it did not, [...]

By: The Gfail Whale: Gmail’s Google Gears integration can’t come soon enough » VentureBeat

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:11:24 +0000

[...] Until things get fixed, if you need to get contact me right away, please direct message me on Twitter. And no, the irony of that statement isn’t lost on us. [...]

By: Twitter: An admission of failure, a call for help » VentureBeat

Twitter: An admission of failure, a call for help » VentureBeat — Thu, 22 May 2008 03:57:51 +0000

[...] the day before that. In fact, Twitter is down right now. A lot of my posts of late about Twitter haven’t had the most serious of tones, but it’s very clear now: Something is seriously wrong with [...]

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

Wed, 21 May 2008 02:34:26 +0000

[...] was sure nice of Twitter to respond to a post on TechCrunch about Twitter being down — again. The question I have is: Where are these updates hours beforehand, when the service is actually [...]

By: Twitter decides to test out downtime ahead of planned downtime » VentureBeat

Mon, 19 May 2008 22:31:05 +0000

[...] a good thing — it’s certainly better than being down with absolutely no explanation (as routinely happens with the [...]

By: Links List 5.16.08 | IT's About Uptime - The StackSafe Blog

Links List 5.16.08 | IT's About Uptime - The StackSafe Blog — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:34:42 +0000

[...] Twitter continues to experience downtime, and many feel it’s an issue of scalability. Venture Beat issues a plea to the company to fix it’s downtime problems. [...]

By: Mainstream imminent? Twitter traffic almost doubled from February to April » VentureBeat

Fri, 16 May 2008 02:09:46 +0000

[...] this kind of growth keeps up, at what point do we consider Twitter mainstream? Of course, Twitter has to stay up long enough for this to happen. //OBSTART:do_NOT_remove_this_comment var [...]

By: MG Siegler

MG Siegler — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:39:07 +0000

That is quite true I believe.

By: Albert

Albert — Thu, 15 May 2008 07:40:30 +0000

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%!

By: smbeebe

smbeebe — Thu, 15 May 2008 07:04:25 +0000

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.

By: sengseng

sengseng — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:20:01 +0000

maybe twitter is just playing hard to get…

By: centernetworks

centernetworks — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:32:04 +0000

nice post – maybe twitter shouldn't have become a platform so quickly