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Mashable - The Social Media Guide: 2009/01/06/sans-steve-jobs-twitter-still-cant-handle-macworld/

  • ZooLoo · 11 months ago
    Just blogged yesterday about Twitter's seemingly endless parade of fails. Do you think they're ready to play with the big boys yet or do they need more time to get their act together?
  • Andy Brudtkuhl · 11 months ago
    I'd rather see the fail whale than updates over an hour late
  • Tony Jameson-Allen · 11 months ago
    Disappointing, surely a priority of a communication tool is to communicate that there is a problem
  • David · 11 months ago
    give twitter a break. i'm sure if it was monetized already it woulda been ok
  • Hans Looman · 11 months ago
    It is working but with a huge backlog in updating the public timeline to the apps.
    I noticed a peak delay of around 42 minutes, right now it is down to about 21 minutes.
    Typical case of #tweetlag, could be caused by too much activity due to macworld and a switched off fail whale...
    Time for a tweetlag measuring app :-)
  • Jon Moss · 11 months ago
    I agree with David, cut them some slack, they're getting there and going in
    the right direction! Plus, it's a free service :-)
  • Keith Pape · 11 months ago
    did friendfeed stay up while twitter was down because they have better infrastrucute, or because they have fewer users at macworld posting?
  • Mollena · 11 months ago
    Yadda yadda, blame Twitter and assume they were "unprepared" for a traffic
    spike and that was the culprit behind their issues.

    This story http://blog.twitter.com/2009/01/dont-blame-geek... links to the reasons for the Twitter issues. I'm not all that highly connected and even I'd read in
    Twitter's own service blog, that they were having a (fairly boring) caching
    problem, which was ongoing.

    I know it is cool to assume that the geeks are the ghost in the machine, but
    this tsk-tsking seems snarky and, well, frankly, wrong.


    Mollena
    A Perverted & Profane Twitter User.
  • mike scott · 11 months ago
    Friendfeed has no where near the numbers that twitter does. Friendfeed has a different infrastructure setup to twiter. Friendfeed and twitter are different things.
  • Robert Maas · 10 months ago
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