If a person says Twitter is down, when Twitter is not down, and then Twitter goes down, will everybody believe the person that said that Twitter was down?
“I wrote this yesterday in a FriendFeed comment: "I've now reached the stage where I'm even communicating about live sporting events on FriendFeed rather than Twitter (thanks to rooms and fftogo)." I'm ruminating on this.” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
I think that Twitter's logic is that as long as you can post tweets via the web interface, Twitter is up. Now I'm just sitting here and waiting to see what they remove next.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
We need percentages for upness or downness. Without IM, replies, public timeline, or archives, and with the API capped at 10/hour, let's say that it was 20% up.
- Morton Fox
"severely impacted" might be an understatement...
- Robert Kuhlmann
Seems like they went down the last time a database died. We need some redundancy here.
- dgw
Well they lost me today...so I guess that's 1
- Bwana ☠
I don't plan to leave. I started using Gmail intensively a couple years ago and it would go down pretty regularly for brief periods (usually no more than 15-30 minutes). Of course, those outages were generally at least a month apart, but I got irritated just the same when it was inaccessible. Yet I kept coming back, and now I haven't had an outage in months. Twitter is the same thing; I...
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- dgw
Kevin. These were so funny i had to share them on a blog post at facereviews.com. i could not stop laughing through my tears. not good for twitter. the ironic thing is twitter is down and in "quiet time" as i write this. uuuggghh
- Rodney Rumford
Kevin, Can I use your pictures to create a slideshow?
- Oliver Ding
Fron the Twitter Blog: Around 11 am in San Francisco, our main database db006, crashed because of too many connections. We have to put the service into an unscheduled maintenance mode to recover. Folks will see degraded service for the next few hours. - http://blog.twitter.com/2008...