Twitter - death by success
Posted by Chris Tippie
Another day, another Twitter crash. Twitter is rapidly becoming a victim of its own success. Outages have become frequent and unfortunately, predictable. Twitter’s inability to scale has resulted in turnover of key technical staff and a complete rethinking of their technology strategy with the very public abandonment of Ruby on Rails. Now, reports are coming in that people are moving to FriendFeed in search of a more stable platform. Rule #3 of the Web 2.0 world - if you fall down, they will leave - quickly.
P.S. I am a Twitter junkie.
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Tags: friendfeed, social networking, twitter
May 21st, 2008 at 10:20 am
I too am a Twitter junkie — my Twitter username is “patrickbeeson” — but I can’t imagine why they can’t get things straight on the backend.
Eric Moritz, an industrious developer here at Scripps, recreated a rough version of Twitter using Django and Google App Engine.
Perhaps this is a cry for help from the likes of Google or Yahoo!?