Comments on: Twitter Fails Macworld Keynote Test

By: State of the Union Overloads Twitter | Interwebology

State of the Union Overloads Twitter | Interwebology — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:46:22 +0000

[...] annual Macworld event, Twitter’s servers failed during Steve Job’s keynote. TechCrunch wrote about the failure at the time: Twitter will probably just shrug their shoulders as they usually do during outages, [...]

By: Geek News Daily Podcast » Blog Archive » Geek News Daily #9 for January 15, 2008

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:30:30 +0000

[...] Twitter fails the Macworld Keynote test [...]

By: notes, thoughts, ideas and responses » The FriendFeed! vs. Twitter? Battle Has Started

Wed, 21 May 2008 05:49:47 +0000

[...] early-adopter crowd leaves. Downtime continues to be an issue even after the service went down at Steve Job’s Keynote and SXSW earlier this year. That same negative energy started to resonate throughout the company [...]

By: How Do You Say “Fix Your Service” In Japanese?

How Do You Say “Fix Your Service” In Japanese? — Sat, 17 May 2008 07:34:20 +0000

[...] announcement follows a week where Twitter failed under the strain of users using the service to Twitter the Steve Jobs keynote at the Macworld Expo, part of a [...]

By: notes, thoughts, ideas and responses » With a little exericise, Twitter will be in great health

Wed, 07 May 2008 09:48:12 +0000

[...] no secret Twitter has suffered this year. In January, Twitter completely failed during Steve Job’s keynote address at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Things got worse in April when Twitter was down for three days and in the following days lead [...]

By: Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails

Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:59:14 +0000

[...] hearing this from multiple sources: After nearly two years of high profile scaling problems, Twitter is planning to abandon Ruby on Rails as their web framework and start [...]

By: Enterprise Alley mobile edition

Enterprise Alley mobile edition — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:22:58 +0000

[...] His presentation suggested Twitter’s problems were behind them, but in fact some of their biggest stumbles hadn’t occurred [...]

By: Amateur Hour Over At Twitter? | crown.MONKEY

Amateur Hour Over At Twitter? | crown.MONKEY — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:00:11 +0000

[...] presentation suggested Twitter’s problems were behind them, but in fact some of their biggest stumbles hadn’t occurred yet. Note in particular slide 9 of that presentation, where Cook says about [...]

By: Amateur Hour Over At Twitter?

Amateur Hour Over At Twitter? — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:32:08 +0000

By: Twitter pada, ale ludzie go kochają | EBZY - domena przejęta przez freed.pl

Twitter pada, ale ludzie go kochają | EBZY - domena przejęta przez freed.pl — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:39:47 +0000

[...] Macworld. Głośno jest zazwyczaj wtedy, gdy coś nie działa - tak też było w tym wypadku. Notka na TechCrunch cytuje Mike’a Bogle, który podsumowuje: In that sense Twitter has really begun to play a [...]

By: Blog van Jimmy Cappaert » Sociale media op mijn testbank

Blog van Jimmy Cappaert » Sociale media op mijn testbank — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:02:59 +0000

[...] gebruiken tijdens de Keynote van Steve Jobs. Helaas zagen de Twitties dat niet zitten, de site had behoorlijke performanceproblemen. Dus, mits een beetje tweaking kan Twitter toch nog nuttig zijn om een snelle blog op te starten, al [...]

By: ddhr.org - Twitter downtime solution

ddhr.org - Twitter downtime solution — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:46:20 +0000

[...] complains about Twitter’s constant downtime problems. It was down during the Macworld keynote address. It was down this past weekend (I think). As a non-user of the service, the one thing I [...]

By: TechCrunch en français » [fr] Mais que se passe t-il chez Twitter?

TechCrunch en français » [fr] Mais que se passe t-il chez Twitter? — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:38:00 +0000

[...] fonds d’investisseurs et leur nouveau CTO en place ces problèmes auraient disparu. Cela a continué lors de la MacWorld Expo ou le service n’a pas tenu et sur les dernières 24h00 c’est la [...]

By: Thoughts on Computing » Blog Archive » Twitter Did Die During Macworld Keynote

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:16:05 +0000

[...] Techcrunch has a post detailing how badly Twitter really did … and it was apparently abysmal. More detail by Mike Bogle (from the event) [...]

By: Does Twitter ever work? | mou.me.uk

Does Twitter ever work? | mou.me.uk — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:53:13 +0000

[...] like they’ve had a few problems recently with traffic spikes - a high profile case being during the MacWorld keynote speech, leaving god knows how many people in the lurch. That was a couple of weeks ago - is this an [...]

By: Collective Intellect » My love-hate with Twitter and tweeters

Collective Intellect » My love-hate with Twitter and tweeters — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:01:32 +0000

[...] day (maybe this would help Twitter’s periodic problems with overloading their servers, like what happened during MacWorld. Now, I myself have done some “live twittering” at conferences, and so I realize that [...]

By: Rails Podcast Brasil - Epis�dio 2

Rails Podcast Brasil - Epis�dio 2 — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:35:19 +0000

[...] Twitter e o efeito Steve Jobs [...]

By: Why journalists should use Twitter (Nico Luchsinger) « Online Journalism Blog

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:35:46 +0000

[...] recently, however, Twitter also made the blogosphere angry when the service went down due to server overload during Steve Jobs’ keynote at [...]

By: Wie kann man Twitter dezentralisieren? | Holger Dieterich Blog

Wie kann man Twitter dezentralisieren? | Holger Dieterich Blog — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:01:30 +0000

[...] Der Keynote von Apple-Chef Steve Jobs diese Woche ist der Mikroblogging-Dienst Twitter ausgefallen. Vermutlich war er überlastet von den vielen Nutzern, die in “Echtzeit” über [...]

By: Brij

Brij — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:17:25 +0000

Duncan - This is yawningly late to this thread but I think it’s relevant. We implemented Twitter-backup solution, which hosts twitter posts when Twitter goes down and republishes when Twitter comes back.

http://blogs.messagedance.com/.....our-email/

By: No-limits twittering, right from your email!

No-limits twittering, right from your email! — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:06:53 +0000

[...] all incoming twitter posts in local database and republishes whenever Twitter is backup. We hope MacWorld situation will never happen [...]

By: Technicle

Technicle — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:44:06 +0000

Notwithstanding, it’s certainly nice to note Twitter’s announcement of the Starling code today, and open sourced –
http://dev.twitter.com/2008/01.....rling.html

at least win back some (deserved) credibilities..

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:06:24 +0000

The fact that the Twitter outage created so much outrage is actually GREAT publicity for Twitter. It shows that even as a free service, its huge user base is heavily relying on it and is disrupted by its absence.

It might not have been on purpose, but it was a well-timed outage - diverting the attention of tons of technology reporters and enthusiasts away from Apple’s news, proving Twitter’s worth and impact to Union Square Ventures.

By: Mike Power

Mike Power — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:00:10 +0000

Just how many individual updates did people need from Macworld anyway?
I followed the keynote perfectly adequately only to find Twitterers repeating everything a thousand fold and then complaining that the site crashed. Jeez!

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:28:43 +0000

Duncan, why do you say Jaiku was killed by Google? It’s still there and it works. Assuming Google doesn’t pull a Dodgeball, Jaiku could be a good Twitter replacement.