Yes, the glitches and outages are getting worse, not better. And it's driving activity over to Friendfeed. Which is not a bad thing, except for Twitter. They have several weeks at most to fix this before leading users start abandoning it. - Dion Hinchcliffe
Couldn't agree more. It's super-frustrating! I wouldn't have tried FriendFeed if not for Twitter outages. I was using Friendfeed as an aggregator but may have to start using it for Twitter style needs as well. - Mario Sundar
I agree with Dion, except that I don't think Twitter has several weeks. They may have a few at the very most. I love Twitter and I'm almost ready to jump ship. - Gregory Pittman via twhirl
we just need more third party to FF to make it really usable in more cases. - kosmar via twhirl
There are tremendous threats to mindshare and usage when data / conversations can quickly be picked up in other platforms without skipping a beat. Flow is the new portability. - Chris Rechtsteiner
How long are we patient with Twitter? Why stick with it? Why not use something which WORKS! - Andrea B
@Dion Hinchcliffe: "They have several weeks at most to fix this..." How long have people been saying that? I think it's going to take more than occasional downtime (even daily) to cause a mass migration to another service. The size of Twitter's userbase gives it a huge advantage over the other services, even those that are technologically superior. I think there's a chance for a decentralized Twitter-like concept to take over, though. - Matthew Gifford
All these down times would have helped Jaiku if they had open sign-ups and a U.S. shortcode. I am surprised they haven't taken advantage. Ah.. another friendster swallowed by Google. - Erik Weese
Man this is crazy!! It's been down twice today and there isn't even any big breaking news...maybe they should just sell themselves to Google for the sake of keeping the service relevant. - Devlin Dunsmore via twhirl
@Erik Weese: Jaiku is dead. And even if it weren't, I don't think it would gain much from Twitter going down. I don't see many people calling for a move to Pownce or FriendFeed, either. - Matthew Gifford
@Devlin There was an announcement of some scheduled maintenance last night. Maybe they were updating the Something's Wrong graphics and this is just the follow up testing. - Kevin D. White
AM giving a presentation on Twitter at SES Toronto and I really hope Twitter solves its issues by then or there won't be much to talk about. - Lee Odden
They're in the process of porting Jaiku to Google App Engine. Whether it ever turns into anything when that process is complete remains to be seen. - Chris Johnson
I just think this post is funny... esp the last line. - Dan Delphin via twhirl
The network effect has well and truly kicked in. People talking about "a few weeks left" for Twitter are dreaming. Nobody is leaving Twitter any time soon, though I agree that the stability of the service in general has been woeful for a long time now. - Jamie
hopefully users will stay around long enough to see the site work again :\ - Chris Jones via twhirl
Honestly, what is the real alterative? If there was one, don't you think people would have moved? - Dan Delphin via twhirl
I am still in a fog as to why Twitter doesn't provide some kind of definitive answers for the outages. They are obvious are aware of the fan base and have to know that the majority of us are pissed of. I keep harking back to the interview I saw the "Twitter guys" do with Shel Israel and they kept taking about improving "reliability". WTF!?!?!?!!?!!?! - James via Alert Thingy
" If Twitter had more communication when there are unexpected issues, I think users would be more understanding. " - A. Stern - James via Alert Thingy
they posted on their blog and they have a getsatisfaction.com site - Chris Jones via twhirl
Michael Thanks for the heads up on the hotel (everyone seems to miss that this was the MOST important part of this message, hope you're feeling better). I'm looking for some context. I want to see what's happening to both traffic and new accounts as these 'hiccups' occur on Twitter. Why throw 'blame' around without any facts? 2.0 is allowing things to accelerate and change amplitude at such unanticipated rates that all 'normal' planning is next to useless. - Rotkäpchen
So apparently, they had a database failure... at least that's what they are saying at Getsatisfaction.com - Dan Delphin via twhirl
when in doubt blame the database! I can't believe they would only have one backup on hand though, seems very unlikely for a company of that scale (even if they are that small) - Chris Jones
Boy I'm glad I was staying at the Westin last week then. Nasty stuff, food poisoning. - Dickie Adams
One has to wonder how many times Twitter's users will put up with this... my guess is "not much longer" if things don't change drastically, and soon. - Lee Goolsbee
I'm curious, why don't people just migrate to FF or Pownce or some other reliable service instead of putting up with it? I don't use Twitter that much but it seems to me it's like a giant bee hive, so if you just move the queen bee (I guess that's Robert Scoble - no offense) the rest of the hive will follow. - Michael Pardee
twitter is still down. @michael Pardee people will follow the community and its catalyst. - Sean Scott
@Michael Pardee - I already have quit twitter (like the ryhme of that) and am using FF exclusively. - Jason Kaneshiro
