Sounds bad... there could be much of trouble for Twitter if they can't solve things soon enough. - Daniel Schildt

Honestly, even with the limitations of features on friendfeed and a more limited network (on my part) I am now posting just about everything I post here. - Jeremy Kunz

I like to post on Twitter, but then check back here for replies. When the majority of my network moves here, I may move over here entirely. The SMS posting of Twitter is just too easy from a mobile phone. - Jesse Stay

I wonder if comp.sci students of the future will study the fail whale. - Mark Derricutt

Fail wail, too funny. - Colby Olson

@Jesse - I do the same. Use twitter as the conversation catalyst, Friendfeed to expand the conversation. I'll follow the discussion wherever folks want to take it, although not having the same groups of friends across socnets complicates things. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

I hope Twitter people know how to develop 2-3 parallel systems, and do a good switchover (one which allows switchback, and doesn't lose data during transitions). Hopefully they've got checkpoints, audit logs, rollback, among other database 101 stuff. For example, they could allow switching into a temporary system which only holds ~1 day of data (after informing Twitter users that they won't be able to access old history for 24 hrs). - Mitchell Tsai

I really don't understand how it can take months. Are they just starting now? Why weren't these problems understood and a plan developed months ago. Ev and Biz may be nice guys but from the sounds of it they are not all that competent. They have months of money but I doubt they have that long remaining in user goodwill. - Brian Sullivan

Brian: I think they are setting expectations properly. These things do not get fixed overnight. Blogger had similar problems and it took a while for them to fix. - Robert Scoble

Blogger had the same problems? -- and no lesson was learned from that? Or maybe the lesson was I can produce crap, take forever to get it working properly and still sell it for a gazillion dolars? Geez -- the whole SV ecosystem must be fucked up if that is the attitude. Whose money are the VCs using to fund these kinds of fiascos? - Brian Sullivan

Brian: in a way, the problems are similar, but not the same. I think this stuff all was covered in the video yesterday. You should watch it. - Robert Scoble

when facebook roll out their new redesign, with a deeper integration with social site for the news feed, twitter will be in trouble. solve the issue now! - Truong Nguyen

Well I watched the video and didn't see anything there in the way of useful information. I really think you were very kind and maybe overly friendly. The tough questions about the personal competency of the people in the room didn't get answered (and maybe there was no way to really ask those questions). I really wonder how somebody could plunk down $15 million with the kind of cavalier "aw shucks" attititude that Ev and Biz seem to have. - Brian Sullivan

Just ran some numbers. Robert Scoble is only 25% of the load of these top 8 bloggers: #msgs (#msgs x #followers) - Robert Scoble 12,346 (320 Million) - Guy Kawasaki 14,322 (186M) - Chris Pirillo 13,470 (165M) - Chris Brogan 18,259 (160M) - Jason Calacanis 4,618 (125M) - Jim Long 18.191 (117M) - Bloggers Blog 9,931 (106M) - TWIT Live 9,753 (104M) = ~1.3 Billion outgoing messages to followers (Actual number of msgs probably 50-75% lower because #followers increases over time) - Mitchell Tsai