Personally, I am not a big fan of Twitter even though I’ve been using it for several years now for what can almost be called business – my Facebook fan page accounts are connected to Twitter, so site updates from Facebook are auto-posted into the feed.
During its meteoric growth period, Twitter would go down every time something hipster-oriented would occur. Nowadays, with twitter growth relatively stable and all infrastructure in place, the occasional fail whale is just a sign of good ol’ incompetence. Can you imagine Google being down? How about Facebook? Amazon (expect for the occasional DDoS attack)? It’s quite amazing that even with so many gifted and driven individuals on board, and with such a basic feature set, the service still can’t simply manage 100% uptime.
