Comments on: Twit This: Fame Increased Twitter Downtime

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:42:12 +0000

Unbelievably, Twitter is STILL averaging out at around an hours downtime each day (http://www.justuptime.com/reports/fb1456556cb037fb129ab669d9df9944). You would have thought they would have sorted things out by now?!

By: John

John — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:19:44 +0000

Plurk, anyone?

The Fail Whale is here to stay!

By: FriendFeed. More Like (Fake)FriendFeed - GigaOM

FriendFeed. More Like (Fake)FriendFeed - GigaOM — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:31:16 +0000

[...] Essentially the company is well-known because it was started by some ex-Google guys, including Paul Buchheit, who made his name working on Gmail. And it’s been attracting people who are dissatisfied by Twitter and its constant outages. [...]

By: FriendFeed. More Like (Fake)FriendFeed - GigaOM

FriendFeed. More Like (Fake)FriendFeed - GigaOM — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:54:32 +0000

[...] Essentially, the company well known because it was started by some ex-Google guys including Paul Buchheit, who made his name working on GMail. It has been attracting people who are dissatisfied by Twitter and its constant outages. [...]

By: Five Nines on the Net is a Pipe Dream - GigaOM

Five Nines on the Net is a Pipe Dream - GigaOM — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:34:05 +0000

[...] words with members of my party before deciding on a new locale. However, when we write blogs or tweets (if Twitter is up), the inconvenience and our subsequent vitriol is archived forever and transmitted around the world [...]

By: IT’s About Uptime - The StackSafe Blog » Is 6 Days Too Much Annual Downtime? – A Question Almost Too Surprising to be Asked.

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:18:42 +0000

[...] were written. Most pin the cause of the availability problems on issues scaling the service. GigaOM relates that fame has led to the Twitter downtime. Similarly, TechCrunch ascribes the Twitter outages to growing pains. An [...]

By: Rajesh Duggal

Rajesh Duggal — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:39:20 +0000

“Blaine Cook on Scaling Twitter”
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7846959339830379167

Enjoy,
Rajesh Duggal

By: jonas

jonas — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:57:53 +0000

I thought the downtown was due to being built on Ruby on Rails

By: Bob Warfield

Bob Warfield — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:14:16 +0000

Makes you wonder what might have happened if Twitter was built on Amazon Web Services. I suspect it would have been a lot better, but others may disagree.