Twitter Goes Through Growing Pains…Applies Brakes May 28, 2008
Posted by Andrew Wee in : social traffic , trackbackLooks like Twitter is fast becoming a victim of its own success.
Over the past weekend, the microblogging platform seems to have had a major bout of traffic/resource overload and indigestion and went offline for 48 hours or more.
When she came back, she came back sans direct messaging and pagination (I believe it refers to a backlog beyond your first page of tweets).
In addition to conserve resources, third party apps like Twhirl, can’t seem to do API calls more than once every 5 minutes.
This should take a number of steps to increase scalability and stability, although it will take quite a bit away from the “real time” nature of the hybrid IM/blogging type service.
Beyond being a juicy piece of M&A bait for one of the Google-Yahoo-Microsoft tirumvirate, I’m not sure if Twitter has a viable business model, beyond grabbing marketshare and mindshare for the microblogging space.
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I only recently started using Twitter. Right before all the recent issues. They have definitely created something that people use. When Twitter went down multiple times, I started looking for similar sites without too much luck. It’s simple and it works. And hopefully a company with some money and a business plan picks it up.