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Re: Sans Steve Jobs, Twitter Still Can’t Handle MacWorld

Robert Maas — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:11:44 -0000

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Re: Sans Steve Jobs, Twitter Still Can’t Handle MacWorld

mike scott — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:59:14 -0000

Friendfeed has no where near the numbers that twitter does. Friendfeed has a different infrastructure setup to twiter. Friendfeed and twitter are different things.

Re: Sans Steve Jobs, Twitter Still Can’t Handle MacWorld

Mollena — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:35:24 -0000

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/200... 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.

Re: Sans Steve Jobs, Twitter Still Can’t Handle MacWorld

Keith Pape — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:09:21 -0000

did friendfeed stay up while twitter was down because they have better infrastrucute, or because they have fewer users at macworld posting?

Re: Sans Steve Jobs, Twitter Still Can’t Handle MacWorld

Jon Moss — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:34:27 -0000

I agree with David, cut them some slack, they're getting there and going in
the right direction! Plus, it's a free service :-)

Re: Sans Steve Jobs, Twitter Still Can’t Handle MacWorld

Hans Looman — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:09:58 -0000

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 :-)

Re: Sans Steve Jobs, Twitter Still Can’t Handle MacWorld

David — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:56:43 -0000

give twitter a break. i'm sure if it was monetized already it woulda been ok

Re: Sans Steve Jobs, Twitter Still Can’t Handle MacWorld

Tony Jameson-Allen — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:36:10 -0000

Disappointing, surely a priority of a communication tool is to communicate that there is a problem

Re: Sans Steve Jobs, Twitter Still Can’t Handle MacWorld

Andy Brudtkuhl — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:18:43 -0000

I'd rather see the fail whale than updates over an hour late

Re: Sans Steve Jobs, Twitter Still Can’t Handle MacWorld

ZooLoo — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:16:56 -0000

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?