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Twitter: Something Is Technically Wrong

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(This is actually from the article:) "Anyway, I’m in a particularly bad mood because I have food poisoning (thanks very much Grand Hyatt Seattle) and Twittering it was going to make me feel marginally better because a bunch of people would say something nice in a reply. But they take even that away from me."

And so the world is denied a minute by minute 160-character descriptions of Michael Arrington's food poisoning :( Guess we'll just have to wait till Scoble eats something bad.

Heh, I can't imagine how crazy we would go if we lived in Bagdad and actual electricity was as unreliable as Twitter. It's annoying when Twitter is down, but man, it makes me realize how spoiled we are.

Thats a great call! we are spoiled, to have cars, houses, family, food and jobs (not mention computers)

"By being white, male and american; you are ahead of over 70% of people in the world!"

http://www.globalrichlist.com/

You are in the 99th percentile even if you make just $47,500 per year (irrespective of your race, gender etc)

Cry me a freaking river. Is anyone else sick of this one person complaining endlessly that a free service doesn't meet his standards?

because something is free doesnt mean it gets of the leash of reasonable standards. if google, facebook, hacker news, or anything else were constantly down, it would be "ok". Not sure where your standards come from.

The author has a sense of entitlement to this service, as if he somehow deserves to use it, and if it is down, he has been wronged.

He has been wronged. It's a service, which he relies on to communicate to thousands of people. If you make a service that people rely upon enough and integrate to their lives, they should expect decent uptime. Twitter doesnt even come close. It really isn't out of line

If someone provides me with something, and I give nothing in return, I consider it a gift.

Is it just me or has techcrunch taken a decided nose-dive of late?

Some of us bloggers are actually former developers, and do know what we are talking about. Unless Twitter does something drastic, they will end up a footnote of what not to do with a start-up. I know that PG has said before not to worry about revenue, but this is what happens. It also relies too heavily on the database, which means any time they tank the db, they have to bring the whole thing back up. Last week I was one of their biggest defenders. This week I'm pretty sure they have no interest in actually fixing the problem and running it like a business. Fail.

The thing that annoys me is he's still whining about the platform, like he knows that is the issue. I wish he'd read the thread on HN discussing Twitter's problems and paid attention. If only "journalists" understood what they were writing about. sigh

I'd like to remind Mr. Arrington that he's a blogger, and just that.

Techcrunch: Something Is Technically Wrong

Am I the only one who notices the 5 to 10 second delay on deep links?

You'd think a site that critiques other sites would be a little faster.

tc;dr

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