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By: A Fail French Bulldog sighting: Pownce goes down » VentureBeat

A Fail French Bulldog sighting: Pownce goes down » VentureBeat — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:58:08 +0000

[...] The cause of the problems is apparently a slave database corruption issue that was followed by a failure of the backup database, according to the blog post. It was a “freak accident,” Pownce cofounder Leah Culver tells me, indicating that it was not some kind of scaling issue that routinely took down Twitter in the past. [...]

By: IT PRO: Blogs: Dennis Howlett: Web 2.0 coming to business process

IT PRO: Blogs: Dennis Howlett: Web 2.0 coming to business process — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:44:23 +0000

[...] Profile Along with other edglings, I’m a huge fan of Web 2.0 technologies and especially the frequently borked Twitter. Most folk I know are addicted to Twitter so that despite its many failings, we keep hanging on in [...]

By: Can Twitter survive the WWDC Stevenote? » VentureBeat

Can Twitter survive the WWDC Stevenote? » VentureBeat — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 03:37:25 +0000

[...] Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on Monday morning (10 AM PST). The question is: Given Twitter’s current state is there anyway it can stay online during the whole [...]

By: FriendFeed takes noisy tracks and makes a best-of collection » VentureBeat

FriendFeed takes noisy tracks and makes a best-of collection » VentureBeat — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:53:38 +0000

[...] With some services, a strength is also a weakness. Take the micro-messaging service Twitter for example. It’s becoming more and more popular because more and more people are using it. However, because of this popularity, fundamental flaws in its architecture have been exposed and the service is constantly down. [...]

By: Startup Meme » Twitter With a Status But Still Dead

Startup Meme » Twitter With a Status But Still Dead — Thu, 29 May 2008 10:37:46 +0000

[...] after dreadful communication with users regarding problems, the micro-messaging service Twitter is gradually coming back on [...]

By: Twitter: Still not working, but explaining why on Twitter Status blog » VentureBeat

Thu, 29 May 2008 04:41:02 +0000

[...] run using the Tumblr micro-blogging platform, will allow the company to provide quick updates when something breaks — or as the case may be, something is fixed. That was in fact the case tonight as Twitter [...]

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daemon 4 12 — Tue, 27 May 2008 09:06:48 +0000

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By: The only thing Twitter has to fear, is Twitter itself » VentureBeat

The only thing Twitter has to fear, is Twitter itself » VentureBeat — Sun, 25 May 2008 06:12:20 +0000

[...] that is reasonable. The service’s reliability has gone from bad to worse, culminating in an admission that it isn’t sure what is wrong and that it will basically need to be re-built. As anyone who has read any of my dozen or so posts [...]

By: Twitter may have more serious issues than its downtime » VentureBeat

Twitter may have more serious issues than its downtime » VentureBeat — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:47:34 +0000

[...] clearly has some issues that it needs to work out — and its downtime may be the least of them. //OBSTART:do_NOT_remove_this_comment var [...]

By: Twitter on its architecture: We can rebuild it. We have the technology. » VentureBeat

Thu, 22 May 2008 19:59:40 +0000

[...] Twitter has had major scaling issues over the past year and change — issues we’ve all experienced in both the system being down and general [...]

By: Linkpost | 5.22.2008 | dailytechnews.info

Linkpost | 5.22.2008 | dailytechnews.info — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:35:15 +0000

[...] Twitter: An admission of failure, a call for help — Techs at Twitter don’t know why the service has been down repeatedly [...]

By: Twitter and Friendster Parallels | Bronte Media

Twitter and Friendster Parallels | Bronte Media — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:14:44 +0000

[...] is at a very similar juncture in its own life. In fact, you can probably nail today’s close of a $15m round of capital that was extremely competitive to the time when Friendster raised a similar amount for Kleiner Perkins and shunned a $30m [...]

By: The turnaround begins? Twitter gets its $15 million funding » VentureBeat

The turnaround begins? Twitter gets its $15 million funding » VentureBeat — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:53:28 +0000

[...] on and off throughout the afternoon, but that is really a given at this point. The bigger news was its admission that it had no idea what the problem was that was causing its downtime. The service has reason to [...]

By: Database Management » Blog Archive » Twitter: An admission of failure, a call for help

Thu, 22 May 2008 04:56:28 +0000

[...] – Intelligentedu.com Free Computer Training Blogs wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt I’m sure you’re sick about hearing about Twitter downtime by now. Quite frankly I’m sick of writing about it. However, a post tonight on Twitter’s offical blog is worth writing about: We’ve gone through our various databases, caches, web servers, daemons, and despite some increased traffic activity across the board, all systems are running nominally. The truth is we’re not sure what’s happening. (The emphasis is mine.) Twitter was down again today. It was down yesterday, and the day before th [...]

By: Twitter: How do you keep customers coming back? The importance of switching costs « These two cents

Thu, 22 May 2008 04:39:20 +0000

[...] MG over at Venturebeat has a good post up on Twitter’s employees admitting to the fact that they don’t know what’s going on. Possibly related posts: [...]