Twitter needs an upgrade
Stephen | Internet | Monday, May 19th, 2008 
At the time of writing this, Twitter is down. With over 1 million users registered, Twitter is the largest micro-blogging website, and one of the most popular social networks on the internet.
Created back in July 2006, Twitter was built without the idea of so many users for the service. Its infrastructure isn’t designed for this many people sending status updates every second.
For me at least, it appears Twitter goes down a lot. It may just be the fact that I’m in a different time zone to most Twitter users (GMT/UK Time); however, Twitter have created a global community, and need to keep that in mind when performing maintenance on their site.
Whether Twitter needs more processing power added to its service, or just a complete re-code of the way it processes updates - it needs to be done. Twitter: Your service is awesome, but nothing will stop you losing your powerful user base if this frequent downtime continues - please, fix it.
Hehe, I’d even be willing to pay for twitter service occasionally if it was to work better. Rumor is they just closed the deal on some more funding though. Hopefully that will help…
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Michael Mistretta (Check me out!) — May 22, 2008 @ 4:15 pm
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Blah (Check me out!) — May 22, 2008 @ 9:05 pm
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Chris24 (Check me out!) — May 22, 2008 @ 9:57 pm
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Connor Bevans (Check me out!) — May 22, 2008 @ 9:57 pm
Twitter has scaled quite a bit since its conception, but they have had a hard time keeping up with the growth of its users. There is no ad revenue when it comes to the website, so they have to depend on investors before they throw money around.
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Michael P (Check me out!) — May 25, 2008 @ 3:57 pm
Michael P, I believe Twitter has had some sponsors in the past such as Motorola. But there aren’t any visible ads on the site right now, so I guess they don’t have much money to throw around. Perhaps they should find more unintrusive ad partnerships so that they can keep the service running.
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Stephen (Check me out!) — May 25, 2008 @ 4:09 pm