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By: Stuck In The Twitter Jam? Try This Hidden Route.

Stuck In The Twitter Jam? Try This Hidden Route. — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:37:19 +0000

[...] shouldn’t have to remind anyone that situations like this has happened before, and back then it also backed up the service for several hours. But the difference now is that [...]

By: Eau Claire Wisconsin Business & Technology News

Eau Claire Wisconsin Business & Technology News — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:26:33 +0000

Twitter Turns Three and Dozens of Other Twitter News…

Twitter turned 3 years old the other day and for most people that number probably seems strange because for most people Twitter is rather new. I admit I didn’t know about Twitter 3 years ago but I guess I was into social networking when hotmail was …

By: john

john — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:16:54 +0000

stories like these are ABSURD. can you stop this bs!
this is NOT quality reporting. i do use twitter a little bit, but the fact that the service was down for 2 hours…c’mon. GET REAL! there is this old meme that the internet is dangerous/unsafe…and articles like this just play into it. every article about every possible (perhaps not actual) security breach, or email outage, or this…c’mon.

compare that to the “real world” – does the average person’s power go out for more than their email in the course of a given year? um. yes.

get back to journalistic standards and get some QUALITY.

this article and many of your twitter stories are crap.

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Digest Combo #77,#78,#79 — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:49:33 +0000

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By: Bob Chapman

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:24:00 +0000

Not all messages are about what people had for lunch.

With the type of weather being experienced in the mountain passes in Washington state right now, the WashDOT tweets about pass information could be a life saver.

By: Twitterのよどみないメッセージの流れが突如として止まった

Twitterのよどみないメッセージの流れが突如として止まった — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:29:30 +0000

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By: moeffju

moeffju — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:37:41 +0000

Database replication lag of about two hours is inconvenient, but newsworthy? Those who rely upon Twitter for critical communication are completely wacko.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:27:08 +0000

Did the same thing happen last night/this morning? I saw my stream go empty for hours.

By: Rutger Blom

Rutger Blom — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:41:08 +0000

“But it goes to show how dangerous it is to rely on a free third-party service for important communication.”

Are there people that use Twitter for important communication? Not something I recommend.

By: DOGMACHInE

DOGMACHInE — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:02:08 +0000

“no messages seem to have gotten lost. Thank God.”

OH NO IMAGINE IF THAT MESSAGE ABOUT WHAT YOU HAD FOR LUNCH HAD BEEN LOST!

F-ING LOSER!

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Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:06:29 +0000

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By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:46:10 +0000

TC should stop covering all this Twitter bullshit.

By: Tina

Tina — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 04:58:07 +0000

Bad bad link spammers.

By: GIrish

GIrish — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 04:39:31 +0000

This seems to true only for newly added followers. I am still getting updates from the ppl I used to follow. But when I added my self asa follower, i was not getting any upates from then.

Girish R
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By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:32:58 +0000

Luke — being a sys admin myself, I’m sure they do have an on-call rotation and someone is monitoring things 24×7. But just because something is being monitored 24×7, that doesn’t mean that if something breaks you’re going to have an instant fix for it. You’re just aware of the issue.

Believe me, I’m pretty good at what I do for a living, but there are always situations in which the answer eludes even the best of us for a short while. My guess is that’s what happened.

By: Joe Zydeco

Joe Zydeco — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:02:28 +0000

Did you miss the first part of the article that I quoted? I didn’t see anything mentioned that was life-critical about Twitter other than “enabling people to keep up with your friends’ social activities”.

Yeah, snarkiness aside, there are more reliable and trusted real-time protocols out there, and those should be used for critical messages. Most others have pointed out that crusty old telephone thing that people used to use.

By: Twitter Marks Third Birthday with Twitter Outage | Blippitt

Twitter Marks Third Birthday with Twitter Outage | Blippitt — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:02:02 +0000

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By: Stank

Stank — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:58:01 +0000

Wow, that sounds like an inferiority complex. Don’t worry, we’ll continue to let you use the Internet.

By: MattM2G

MattM2G — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:48:31 +0000

I understand the social value of Twitter, as well as many, many users now relying on Twitter to create revenue models around Twitter and groups (I am one of them). However, as Twitter continues to grow and scale, they are going to have growing pains, and occasional outages (some of them will have to be deliberate in order to improve the system and make it better.)

In the 24/7 world, what would be the best time to bring the system down for a major improvement? Most likely, when the biggest user base (USA) is using it the least!! Unfortunately, Twitter has become a Global phenomenon, and thus people like those tweeting about AUS election were effected.

I am involved in a number of revenue models around Twitter, but as a free service, I am not going to complain when it fails from time to time like all of these whiny idiots.

I hope they continue to improve the service, and succeed in HUGE way!!!

By: Bob Chapman

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:40:31 +0000

These could be considered to having important information by most definitions:

http://twitter....m/wsdot_traffic
http://twitter....om/wsdot_passes
https://twitter...om/wsdot_tacoma

Twitter. It isn’t just for saying what you had for breakfast anymore.

By: matt

matt — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:53:42 +0000

that was awesome, but if you twittered that you could’ve saved yourself a character by spelling Loser correctly

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:24:32 +0000

So Twitter server issues is still considered newsworthy?

By: valleymongrel

valleymongrel — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:58:15 +0000

if da twitterz torrentz are pulled down, we pirates gonna startz p2p tweeting .
icanhaztweetorrentz?

By: Technology News » Twitter’s Constant Stream Of Update Messages Suddenly Grinds To A Halt

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:17:53 +0000

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By: A

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:57:06 +0000

Just pick a time zone and mark which one it is – we can figure out the rest.