Comments on: It’s 6:30pm… Do You Know What Service is Down?

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Maybe going down so frequent is all part of the plan.

Think about it.

Take a service that attracts a certain subset of self-promoting, blogger-types to love you so when you go down, nobody calls you out, they all just blog about “Oh twitter, how will I live without you”.

Just say no to Twitter.

By: James Bruni

James Bruni — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Great, funny post Allen.
Indeed, we’re all hooked on TwitterCrack these days.
They know a lot about tech, but nothing about PR and customer relations.
Great seeing you at the MashMeet NYC. If CN doesn’t cover it, it didn’t happen.

By: Rosemarie Pena

Rosemarie Pena — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yes, I confess, I m a Twitter addict. Video is Brilliant. {{Big Guffaw}}

By: tilll

tilll — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

(This is in reply to some of the comments…)

What’s really pathetic is people bitching about how they could do it better. Most of them have no clue about the backend side of a website and neither have they had their hands in a project getting 10% of twitter’s traffic.

I am not defending twitter or the choices made, but it’s hard and there is always a shit load of people who know it better. :D

By: centernetworks

centernetworks — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

some wear diamonds, some wear clocks, i wear conference badges

By: centernetworks

centernetworks — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

drew, for a small fee i can get you an absolute fix whenever you need it

By: centernetworks

centernetworks — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

that is a valid point Jay

By: Jeff Crites

Jeff Crites — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It’s the *bling* that I find so wonderful.

By: Tim Marman

Tim Marman — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Twitter’s unreliability is starting to get comical. I mean, really, it’s pathetic, but as you point out it’s an interesting phenomenon that people are SO loyal to it… though I do have to think at some point we’re going to get fed up.

I wrote recently that XMPP is the right model for them to really scale (http://snurl.com/27anl), so I find it interesting that it was Jabber related. What exactly does “an errant API project eating way too much of our Jabber … resources” mean? If it’s just a stream, and their issues with it are the different “historical views”, why is that an issue?

Dare also had a great post about this today – http://snurl.com/2acx3.

By: Kene

Kene — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Popular websites’ destiny :)

By: drew olanoff

drew olanoff — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

i actually logged into jaiku and posted just to get my fix.

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The amount of coverage you dedicate to this is starting to get pathetic…