Thursday, August 28, 2008

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Twitter: ‘We’re not sure what’s happening’

In an untitled and verbose blog post yesterday, Twitter admitted it does not know what is causing its frequent service outages and asked for patience from users. “We’ve gone through our various databases, caches, web servers, daemons, and despite some increased traffic activity across the board, all systems are running nominally. The truth is we’re not sure what’s happening.”

Twitter Downtime

CNet’s Dave Rosenberg (@daveofdoom) warns Twitter that if it can’t keep its service up, it will suffer the fate of Friendster.

May 22, 2008 | Filed Under Business, Technology | Leave a Comment 

With outages, Twitter headed down the AOL path?

Twitter was on the rocks yesterday, giving visitors code 500 internal server errors. This comes on the heels of a major outage two weeks ago that, to the frustration of many, was barely acknowledged by the company. This time Twitter made an effort an effort to keep users informed on its blog, here and here.

News.com has an excellent essay by Charles Cooper drawing a parallel between Twitter’s troubles and outages suffered by high-flying AOL in the mid-90s. “In August 1996, America Online got in even bigger trouble after going dark for 19 hours.How big a deal was it? Consider this: AOL’s outage was the lead news item on the evening news programs for ABC, NBC, and CBS. If you thought the grumbling about Twitter was bad, remember that AOL back then had more than 5 million subscribers and they were not a happy lot.” Read the story.

May 2, 2008 | Filed Under Business | Leave a Comment 

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