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Twitter Down: If They Can't Handle FOWA, How Will They Handle SXSW?
Written by Allen Stern - February 29, 2008
Twitter is down again, and yes, just being down is not a story. This weekend is the Future of Web Apps conference down in Miami and from what I saw when Twitter was up, the usage is high from the conference.
Next week is SXSW in Austin where Twitter basically launched into the wild and this event will push Twitter further than it ever has been so far.
So what's the communication plan if Twitter is down during the conference? Will we actually need to talk to another human?!?!
We wrote about Twitter's system issues in December and offered 10 ways to deal with Twitter outages. While the entire blogosphere is in love with Twitter, when will these continual outages actually push people away? Will SXSW be the event that made Twitter and, this year, be the event that breaks Twitter?
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Does this mean I'm going to have to sign up for Pownce? I REALLY don't want to.
Ruby on Rails fails! What else can it be? This is the same guy that built Blogger and it wasn't down as much as twitter has been. So either his systems people and programmers are awful (which I doubt) or the framework he has built his technology on is inadequate.
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P.S. (I know this is a simplistic approach but it was fun to say.)
Maybe they are trying to integrate with Hotmail? GO MSFT!
Blogger had its moments. also twitter is a very different animal.
lets face it there are a lot of people read and writing at the same time.
However I can't help but think it would run better on another platform. I suspect they are pushing ruby into areas its never been before.
In all fairness, I don't believe that that last outage was their fault. If I remember, Twitter uses Amazonaws. Another site I use also heavily relies on this and they both had the same problems. I could be wrong on Amazon's problems. Of course, I would also question the premise that FOWA is big enough to make that much of an impact on Twitter.
We can offer all the suggestions in the world, but to think that they haven't thought of or are attempting to implement changes that WILL make it more stable is ridiculous.
We'll see how things progress. Twitter is too ingrained and interactive to show the typical online social media 1-year dropoff. Unless another service comes by and totally takes Twitter out of the game, you'll stay where your community is.
Blaine from twitter told me this morning they had just received 6 new database servers for their cluster. This should increase their capacity drastically.
Being on AmazonAWS shouldn't be factor, they only host images there. Not their app.