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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. Twitter doesn't work by design by itsme1234 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think many of us recognize the potential power of twitter-like thingies. With this in mind I recently joined. It is beyond disappointing.

    - the site itself is barren, with basically no features - it is just like a '98 site in a bad way (not in a "Google-like" minimalist way)
    - can't get updates by SMS in Europe. OK, fair game, it isn't free. But you should be able to at least post by SMS, right? Somehow although they do offer local numbers (very nice) I wasn't able to actually verify any phone so can't update by SMS
    - they had updates by Instant Messenger as official feature for a while but couldn't make it work (why?! at least it should be practically free for them unlike SMS)
    - there are some 3rd party solutions to update by IM but none work (plus you have to trust the 3rd party)
    - same as above for updates by email

    So, yes, nice idea but poor execution.