Comments on: Twitter Fails To Fail, Community Rejoices

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:35:12 +0000

Go Twitter, we knew you could do it!

By: Has Twitter Solved Its Uptime Issues? | about ICT

Has Twitter Solved Its Uptime Issues? | about ICT — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:36:29 +0000

[...] email is tempting fate a little, but I’ve called Twitter on that same issue before and they failed to fail. Perhaps the worst of Twitter’s scalability issues are behind them (knocks on wood). [...]

By: Has Twitter Solved Its Uptime Issues?

Has Twitter Solved Its Uptime Issues? — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:47:37 +0000

By: Life Stupidities » Blog Archive » The waste of time and space that is twitter..

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:48:31 +0000

[...] has been a lot of discussion lately about micro blogging and the many problems associated with twitter. Something that hasn’t [...]

By: Conversations Come To A Screaming Halt On Twitter; Users Simply Move To Friendfeed

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:15:47 +0000

[...] from failing completely. They tried it out during Apple’s recent WWDC keynote and it worked, so they’re clearly using this approach more often now to deal with [...]

By: Ross

Ross — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:34:32 +0000

Is Mike joking about banning people?

Mike, do you need a hug or something?

By: RealityCrunch - My Birth Year Has One 9 Too - That’s Not Special

RealityCrunch - My Birth Year Has One 9 Too - That’s Not Special — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:42:46 +0000

[...] a little confused that no one else seems to have picked up on this (except our personal favorite – we heart you), but what kind of statistical ju-jitsu is Twitter trying to pull with their claims [...]

By: George

George — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:31:28 +0000

This can really get out of hand real fast!

Regarding Twitter, do you think it really helps anyone? there are sooo many strange uses for it – I like this list of lists (maybe that’s why it’s called The Mother of all twitter lists) of things people do with it. Some are just plain stupid!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:34:19 +0000

@74, at least we know that twitter has graphics artists working hard to provide us with nice graphics when the site is unavailable. I thought the whale was about as good what I was expecting to read on twitter.

By: whatknows

whatknows — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:10:12 +0000

@donald (65) @eszter (70) – yes, it was down for me too. In fact, I captured a couple of their troubled tweet pages and threw them up on my blog. I will hand it to them – the whale was cute (pic on my blog if you are interested).

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:25:42 +0000

Please ban me. Please…

By: Resistence is Futile, It’s FriendFeed FTW! | sarahintampa

Resistence is Futile, It’s FriendFeed FTW! | sarahintampa — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:49:28 +0000

[...] They didn’t do so, a feat so downright unbelievable that Michael Arrington of TechCrunch even took time to congratulate them via a blog post on TC, [...]

By: EH

EH — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:39:46 +0000

Funny, when Twitter is down the words can’t come fast and flowing enough. When Twitter is up it only warrants a hundred words. Don’t have children.

By: Jack Meoff

Jack Meoff — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:15:02 +0000

Damn, Arrington, I guess being told to “shut the fuck up” just doesn’t work . . .

By: eszter

eszter — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:05:09 +0000

It may have handled yesterday, but it’s not doing so well today. I just got a “Twitter is over capacity.” message.

By: Gabe

Gabe — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:18:44 +0000

@67 steve

You remember when your mother told you to say “Sorry” then to say it again like you meant it? And that was just the tone of your voice. It’s not like you closed out your apology likening your target to a band of incompetent nincompoops undeserving of their own success.

Arrington’s vibe is too close to jealous lover. And not because of this post, but because of the never-ending stream of coverage over every minute detail.

Mike, it isn’t healthy to obsess like this. Isn’t it time you dumped Twitter?

By: Ashley Williams

Ashley Williams — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:16:41 +0000

Yes I found it quite ironic TC was down after all the twitter uptime bashing by Michael!

The techcrunch homepage (and any other popular page) can be easily cached, Twitter cannot, and that is the reason it is having problems.

And yep, I know Mr. Arrington, I’m banned!

By: steve

steve — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:22:40 +0000

I’ve read books shorter than the twitter status page from yesterday – features turned off, access unavailable. for everyone complaining that MA is too hard on twitter, he could have make this post much worse. something like:

in desperate move to keep users, twitter promises to pass the apple test and fails. what’s next now that they have proven they are incapable of solving their problems no matter how much money they raise?

Instead, Mike decided to be nice.

By: Will Johnston | Mind Muse

Will Johnston | Mind Muse — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:18:05 +0000

Twitter Restores API Limit to 50 Requests Per Hour…

Those of you who use Twitter know that the folks at Twitter haven’t been able to keep the service running properly. You may also know that in an effort to combat the enormous amounts of negative PR that they were receiving as a result the downt…

By: gregory

gregory — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:12:06 +0000

actually i was impressed with techcrunch during that keynote, refreshed nearly everytime. ..

is that media temple’s good work? how did you scale so well?

By: donald

donald — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:05:09 +0000

BS, Twitter went down several times during the WWDC keynote.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:55:39 +0000

yes, yes, you’re all banned.

By: kafka

kafka — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:54:57 +0000

Me too, Ban me please.

By: Ron Shoshani

Ron Shoshani — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:36:32 +0000

BanCrunch!

Love this ban saga, great humor guys, you rock!

By: Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:36:28 +0000

Twitter Survives WWDC, Declares Victory…

After touting its readiness, Twitter stayed online (mostly) during yesterday’s Apple iPhone announcement. …