Comments on: Twitter Might Not Need a Business Model But Apparently They Need More Servers

By: Baher

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

I definitely agree with you Allen, I really had high hopes for the twitter experience during the keynote, but instead I was really frustrated trying to refresh it and see it if works, and ended up writing a rant post against twitter http://technozzle.com/?p=40

By: centernetworks

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

good q – what does he do?

By: till

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

What is your thing with Scobble?
Like, what exactly does he do?! =)

By: till

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

I never get why Twitter scales so horrible. Is that Rails? (Sorry for that! :-))

But all in all, I wonder with Services like Amazon’s ec2 or Joyent – how can you not build an app that scales easily with more hardware.

There are so many startups doing this and they easily survive massive traffic and most of them even share all the goodness on their blog, etc..

I wonder what exactly the problem is for Twitter. Like where is the bottleneck at – I’m curious.

By: lux

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

I too was thoroughly frustrated by the Twitter-out this morning. I don’t know why Twitter is so prone to crashing but I do know this: Someone’s going to take away all their customers if they don’t get their issues under control, and soon.

If I were a coder I’d be working on a “better Twitter” right now.

And yes, I know, there’s Pownce, but for whatever reason nobody likes it.

By: centernetworks

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

duh – it’s cuz scoble’s on twitter!

By: Nikolas Coukouma

Nikolas Coukouma — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I suspect that the answer is simply that Twitter, by design, has a far higher write to read ratio. Compare it to a blog site; it encourages writing, but not to the degree that Twitter does. I wish I had stats, but I expect that their push design (send to IM and SMS) inflates the write/read ratio (since receiving updates probably don’t visit the site as often) but also potentially adds another set of problems (but not as badly as e-mail).