Comments on: Twitter’s data center mystery deepens

By: Aaron Eden

Aaron Eden — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:33:10 +0000

Having read the title of this post on the searches, I checked it out of curiosity. I thought that Twitter is going down the MySpace lane and will be shutting off soon.. This makes me think how vulnerable these third party sites are and they can come and go, anytime. For now, let’s enjoy what we can on the twitter clouds and tweet the day away.

By: David Robins

David Robins — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:50:14 +0000

You can’t bet against breathing, because you can’t find another guy who will bet against you. The pool for new users for Facebbook and twitter is getting smaller and what they add as value is questionable! Just think of endless hours wasted by people writing and reading garbage most of the time. Only small percentage of what goes to these sites is valuable, but most of that too gets lost in the noise.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:21:47 +0000

With this logic, if everyone is long on breathing, best bet is to.. stop breathing?

So long as Twitter and Facebook continue to add value to peoples lives, the only rational reason to leave them is if more value can be derived from not being there. If that is possible (and it may very well be), I don’t know that it’s currently being shown.

By: David Robins

David Robins — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 10:11:16 +0000

I think both FB and Twitter are starting to decline. The novelty is gone and most people who wanted to or forced to (due to peer pressure) have already joined both services. Think of it as stock price, if everybody owns a stock, the best strategy is to short it!

By: Twitter Employee

Twitter Employee — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 01:54:45 +0000

Twitter has indeed abandoned the Utah datacenter, this can be confirmed via traceroutes to ARIN assigned ip addresses. The datacenter is practically empty. “Multiple Sites” probably refers to network only POPs. It’s getting embarrassing that our clueless leadership keeps hiding the fact that our infrastructure plans have failed multiple times.

-Whistleblowing Employee