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Twit This: Fame Increased Twitter Downtime
Twitter, the micro-blogging service that gained momentum with the SXSW Interactive Festival back in March, exploded in popularity this year. And with that came a sharp increase in the outages. Pingdom says Twitter was down for about six days in 2007. No surprise that March was the worst month for them — the service was down for a total of two days, 10 hours and three minutes. (Link)
Makes you wonder what might have happened if Twitter was built on Amazon Web Services. I suspect it would have been a lot better, but others may disagree.
More on my blog:
http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/what-if-twitter-was-built-on-amazons-cloud/
Cheers,
BW
I thought the downtown was due to being built on Ruby on Rails
“Blaine Cook on Scaling Twitter”
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7846959339830379167
Enjoy,
Rajesh Duggal
Plurk, anyone?
The Fail Whale is here to stay!
Unbelievably, Twitter is STILL averaging out at around an hours downtime each day (http://www.justuptime.com/reports/fb1456556cb037fb129ab669d9df9944). You would have thought they would have sorted things out by now?!