Twitter: Down at 8:50 AM CT

Ok, I’m just keeping a record of when Twitter is down.  Like now.  The Twitter home page at this time:

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This is the kind of thing that everyone is worried about when talking about Twitter.  It’s becoming an extremely useful tool, to the point that some people will claim it to be crucial to their daily communications.

Reliability is a key requirement, and I do know from posts on the Twitter Blog and from news that their looking for staff to monitor and maintain solely from the reliability perspective.  As an IT consultant & engineer/architect, I can be patient, I can understand the problems that scaling and massive growth can put on a platform.  However, many simply see these outages as inability to compensate, or worse, neglect.

Twitter’s engineers and management team will prevail, of that I’m sure, but it’s the timing that I worry about.  Even many of it’s most prominent users are becoming more vocal in their concerns about the service.  Shel Isreal posted An Open Letter to the Twitter Guys on what Twitter needs to address.

With all the talk of how simply useful Twitter is, the “Twitter Guys” need to take note of how important it has become to hundreds of thousands (millions?) of people world-wide.  I believe they know, but suggest as Shel does, that they need to communicate more directly, and with more information on what their doing, especially when they’re having some stability problems.  Like today.

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Semi-new to the Twitter community, this is my first “Twitter Down” experience of a fairly long term. It’s kinda scary when Twitterific just spins!

Now I’ll go get work done. LOL


it was down a lot during the mac keynote speech. i was a little frustrated too because i get a lot of live blogging from those types of events from twitter.

i’m sure they notice during big events they are crippled. hopefully they will upgrade their servers soon to compensate.


Dave, welcome to Twitter! I’m now following – look forward to future Tweets!

Chris, Yeah, that was a frustrating two days. It was almost worse because you could use the web, but not a client like Snitter or Twhirl. Anyway, I’m not sure what caused it today, but I’m sure they posted on the blog about it.


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Forgive them for this downtime :)


O.O


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Forgive them :P


Yes I would say like Ryan. Forgive them:P


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downtime happens with every service i think. there are no webprojects working online 100% of time up. so forgive and forget about it :)


I find it quite funny.. anyways forget it and forgive them.


I love Twitter and I remember this down time but it is a case of forgive them and get on with things otherwise life will just become much more stressful than it already is.


It give a bit strange feeling, but it all depends upon the taste of the user.

Thanks for sharing.


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Hi,

Thanks for sharing such a great observation, i’ll try to avoid that time for using twitter.


hey great share.
i like twitter too..

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Ugh, obvious you guys really don’t use Twitter to the same extent as some of us. It’s become a critical communication venue for me, and a year ago when I wrote this post, they simply did not have the reliability issues taken care of.

The other half of it is that I’m an IT infrastructure guy. I know what it takes to plan for and implement for scaled growth of services. They failed. It’s as simple as that.

Now, a year later, they’ve finally got a pretty good handle on their scaling issues. They had a rocky road for about 4 months last year, and I’m glad Ev & crew have that figured out now.

Oh, and Steve, I’m glad you liked the “credit market” aspect of this post.
;-)


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Really usefull article, keep up the good work.


Thanks for the down updates. We have to be patience and wait for repair. Cheers.


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