For those of you who just can’t wait to hear the latest Apple news this morning as it breaks (our live on the scene coverage begins at 8 am PST): Twitter is partnering with Summize to show all twitters that contain the words “wwdc,” “apple,” “iphone” or “steve jobs.”
Twitter is promoting this heavily on every Twitter page with “Apple fan? Our pals at Summize are tracking the WWDC.” I didn’t notice it myself (I use Twhirl and rarely visit the Twitter site), but others have.
It’s no surprise that Twitter is pushing this – they are actively trying to find ways to reduce the database load on their frail infrastructure during the event, and pushing users to a third party service will help. If Twitter goes down, though, there’s nothing Summize will be able to do to help.
Watch the news here.
I’ll say one thing for Twitter, They have community dedicated to keeing the service alive. Pushing page views and the constant refreshes to a third party is real service. Golf clap for Summize.
Smart move. Michel, maybe they got scared after your ‘predictions’ and pulled the last trick they had in store. It’s almost like a soap: ‘Return tomorrow when the twitterama unfolds and we’ll find out…’ The real problem is that there’s almost no brakes between twitter uptime and TC posts to do the laundry and get beer and pizza.
Now lets hope twitter survive through this day.
I was thinking the same thing, shift some of the load over to them. Also services like summize and friendfeed are going to get a real test today. The question is will it be *too* much noise?
I made a little dashboard so I can follow some of the inevitable flow. Click my name above to check it out.
@sean nice job! Add TC and I’ll stay on your page all day
Summize really amplifies Twitter.Good partnership.
@peter Totally would if I could pull RSS of specific tags or categories. TC doesn’t expose this (most blogs dont).
The idea was to experiment with noise reduction on a subject that will be so widely talked about. Anything tossed on that page should have some type of refinement for WWDC content.
I agree with Peter
I have been on the fence with signing up with Twitter for some time now and I just signed up for my first Twitter account 3 days ago. Let see if they can keep up with yet another user and not have the service go down again.
http://www.twitter.com/jbrath
All the best
JB
@peter Just to let you know I am now following your Twitter
shout out to Peter on TechCrunch {seesmic_video:{”url_thumbnail”:{”value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/OBADTpXrsI_th1.jpg”}”title”:{”value”:”shout out to Peter on TechCrunch ”}”videoUri”:{”value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/5bBaaNvlvM”}}}
In case Summize went down, we, at twitscoop, would be more than happy to welcome you
http://www.twitscoop.com
Is Techcrunch becoming a blog on Twitter problems?
Have you got anything personal against them?
If Twitter goes down, you can always switch to Twiddict. They allow you to keep on Twittering and post the updates on your twitter as soon as it’s back. Pretty nifty service, it’s like methadon for Twitter junkies: http://thenextw...witter-addicts/
You forgot the keyword “expensive” in the query!
You can track with Twitscoop : http://www.twit...s/search?q=WWDC !! as well!
BTW, TechCrunch’s 8th article in this month on Twitter! Way to go
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Hedging their “bold” prediction that they could withstand the load by attempting to reduce and funnel track activity to Summize annoys me: in response, I am crafting individual tracks: #ipod, #iphone, #WWDC, #mac, #macbook, #apple, #xcode, #itunes, #AT&T, #Vodaphone, #3G, #Windows … #Japan, #carriers, #music, #million, #billion … #beautiful, #smallest, #best, #boom, #automatic …
So what is the revenue model again?
I have modified Twitturly ( http://twitturly.com ) a little for the event too. I have added additional resources to handle updates quicker as well as changed our caching system so that it’s ttl (time to live) is SHORTER. Unlike twitter, we want to get the latest stuff from the database more often so that the news is visible quicker on our homepage.
Oh, and our “tweet this” buttons work the same as Twiddict, and have for quite some time now. If you make a post to twitter and they are down we’ll store it for you if you’d like and post it to twitter when they come back up.
If the currently most popular items on twitter continue, twitturly will be showing nothing but apple stuff and twitter stuff on the home page.
I believe it’s the first time that a Service (Twitter) is asking to user an add-on service(summize) in order to use their services(tweets)…Is nt this weird?
Using Twitter to report on any event other than a small and relatively meaningless personal one, is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard. For those of you who can’t wait, below is what Twitter will look like this afternoon:
1. OMG. Jobs on stage now. People clapping.
2. Jobs says it will have more memory, be faster. People clapping.
3. Jobs talks about SDK and partnering with developers. People clapping.
4. Jobs unveils iPhone. It is skinnier, comes in other colors. WOW! I NEED one.
5. People clapping still. I think I wet myself. Seacrest out.
I find it weird that Twitter chose to push people to Summize instead of flaunting their own tracking services. Now, I know why that is (the combination of tracking keywords and their architecture is a recipe for doom) but it still sounds weird.
They should have built pages straight out of memcached with tweets containing these apple-related keywords. No need for profile images or anything, just “who said” and “what”. If they kept it to the bare essentials it wouldn’t feel like a defeat, as they’d still be providing the service themselves, and they wouldn’t be bringing down summize with them today (because it is bound to happen – although I hope it doesn’t).
Thanks much!
Well, I was following on Summize, and that just went down, too! (10:32 PST)
For those of you who just can’t wait to hear the latest Apple news this morning as it breaks (our live on the scene coverage begins at 8 am PST): Twitter is partnering with Summize to show all twitters that contain the words “wwdc,” “apple,” “iphone” “steve jobs.”
Twitter is promoting this heavily on every Twitter page with “Apple fan? Our pals at Summize are tracking the WWDC.” I didn’t notice it myself (I use Twhirl and rarely visit the Twitter site), but others have.
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