Twitter trounces the terrible twos, turns three

Twitter trounces the terrible twos, turns three

Twitter turns three today. It’s a birthday some might not have thought the service would live to see after severe downtime and reliability issues during its second year in existence. But Twitter made the hires it needed to, kicked its problems, and endured. Actually, it… Continue Reading

A Payne in the Twitter Fail Whale’s side

A Payne in the Twitter Fail Whale’s side

The micro-messaging service Twitter has been remarkably stable over the past several weeks following prolonged periods of downtime and wonkiness. Recently, as former stalwarts Gmail, Amazon S3 and even Netflix have gone down, Twitter has endured. As such, it’s taken a moment to bestow a… Continue Reading

SoCal earthquake a powerful reminder of Twitter’s potential

SoCal earthquake a powerful reminder of Twitter’s potential

This morning a 5.4 magnitude earthquake struck Southern California near Los Angeles. Well before the information was anywhere on the major news outlets, tweets (Twitter messages) were flowing in at a rapid clip. I say again, events such as this showcase the power of the… Continue Reading

Twitter has its search, now it’s time to embrace mobile

Twitter has its search, now it’s time to embrace mobile

The lack of any search functionality within Twitter has been, quite frankly, ridiculous. The company itself said it would be coming shortly last fall, and yet it never came. Meanwhile others, including FriendFeed added the ability to search tweets (Twitter messages). With its purchase of… Continue Reading

The road to Twitter search is, in fact, paved with Summize

The road to Twitter search is, in fact, paved with Summize

Last week, a blogger named Josh Chandler sent the tech blogosphere into full-scale buzz mode with the rumor that Twitter had acquired the Twitter search engine, Summize. Turns out the rumor is true and that the 5-man strong Summize team has walked into approximately $15… Continue Reading

Is the road to Twitter search paved with Summize?

Is the road to Twitter search paved with Summize?

The micro-messaging service Twitter may be looking to buy the Twitter search engine Summize. That’s the rumor that has been floating around the Internet since this morning.

The rumor seems to have originated on a blog written by a person named Josh Chandler, who claims to… Continue Reading

Twitter: Adding employees, losing features

Twitter: Adding employees, losing features

The mood around the micro-messaging service Twitter has been significantly improved in the past several weeks. The company brought in Pivotal Labs to help with its architecture problems, it has had several weeks of 98 percent plus uptime, its made some new hires and even… Continue Reading

The next time you complain about a company on Twitter, Get Satisfaction may be listening

The next time you complain about a company on Twitter, Get Satisfaction may be listening

While it wasn’t made very clear during its outages over the past several months, Twitter has been using the online customer service site, Get Satisfaction to respond to customer complaints. Now, the two are going to work hand in hand with one another to handle… Continue Reading