B166ER - Made in Cyberspace » Twitter http://www.b166er.com Technology, Science and Money Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:15:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 In 2010, Twitter Doesn’t Need Growth To Fail! http://www.b166er.com/2010/06/in-2010-twitter-doesnt-need-growth-to-fail/ http://www.b166er.com/2010/06/in-2010-twitter-doesnt-need-growth-to-fail/#comments Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:29:16 +0000 Shohat http://www.b166er.com/?p=65 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.

The Year is 2010, Failwhale is alive and well

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