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Twitter Leads Social Networks In Downtime

Posted by timothy on from the great-to-be-top-of-the-list dept.

illectro writes "A study on site availability by monitoring service Pingdom shows that in 2008 Twitter greeted users with the 'Fail Whale' for more than 84 hours, almost twice as much as any other site. At the other end of the scale imeem and Xanga managed less than 4 hours of downtime for 99.95% uptime. Myspace, Facebook and Classmates.com were the only other sites studied which managed to stay up more than 99.9% of the time."

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  1. Re:They are cut off by ProfMobius · · Score: 4, Funny

    Go outside, take a sunbath, twitter your friend about it... err, ha, well...

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  2. and here I am... by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 4, Funny

    And here I am worrying about whether I should see my doctor after 4 hours of uptime.

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  3. Re:They are cut off by The+Dancing+Panda · · Score: 4, Funny

    Twitter Shitter

  4. Re:Twitter, Facebook, MySpace by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Your post, however, was a great contribution to society and will be studied for years by future generations.

    .....just not for the reasons you'd like.

  5. My latest Tweet by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm now posting on /. about Twitter.
    I live such a full life.

  6. Twitter's downtime by teknognome · · Score: 5, Funny

    While I don't use twitter, it's downtime is bad enough (or people are obsessed enough) that not only is there IsTwitterDown.com but also IsIsTwitterDownDown.com

  7. Re:This is nonsense. by blueZ3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    CRUD-style applications

    I think that says it all, right there.

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