I really hate to pick on my favorite online service, but… I have to. Twitter started having issues today with all the traffic from “Mac (obsession) World” today. Supposedly over all the mcInterest in what mcRevelations of mystical mcGadgetry Steve mcJobs would reveal for the mcFollowers of the mcCult.
What get’s me curious is how Twitter handled the traffic from CES last week without nary a blip, and out of the blue, McWrld trips it up big time.
Perhaps I’m out of touch and there is more interest from McWrld and that drives higher volumes of traffic. I dunno.
At any rate, Twitter has proven it’s worth to hundreds of thousands of users, but they still have reliability issues when traffic ramps up. I’m on Twitter for the long haul, it’s a core component in my social networking toolkit, so I’m apt to be disappointed when traffic from a marginally relevant tech show drives it’s usability into the ground.
Ok, end of rant.
And yes, I feel mcBetter. 
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Hi Rick, agreed, it was kind of puzzling seeing all those birds keeling over yesterday (that was the error message I was getting anyway!) but it did make me wonder how they do cope with ever-increasing demand – given it’s a free service? I haven’t checked out their business model, I guess they make money somewhere…
Joanna
Hi Rick, agreed, it was kind of puzzling seeing all those birds keeling over yesterday (that was the error message I was getting anyway!) but it did make me wonder how they do cope with ever-increasing demand – given it’s a free service? I haven’t checked out their business model, I guess they make money somewhere…
Joanna
Joanna, I think they’re still trying to figure the business model out – at least that’s the impression I get from several Tweets flying around occasionally. I’ll admit that twitter is the first service I’d seriously think of paying for – unlike Facebook where I can’t seem to get any value out of it.
Have a good day today – even if it’s half-over by the time I wrote this.
Rick
Joanna, I think they’re still trying to figure the business model out – at least that’s the impression I get from several Tweets flying around occasionally. I’ll admit that twitter is the first service I’d seriously think of paying for – unlike Facebook where I can’t seem to get any value out of it.
Have a good day today – even if it’s half-over by the time I wrote this.
Rick