Hey Twitter, Maybe It’s Better Not To Share Absolutely Everything

Do all of arrington's rants on twitter have to be submitted here? We get it now, twitter is unstable and he is annoyed with that; nothing much they can do till it gets resolved (which takes time) so lets not sound all surprised when it does go down...

Hey Tech Crunch, Maybe It's Better Not To Blog Absolutely Everything.

Seems like a lose-lose situation for Twitter. Before they just had errors saying "oops, try again".. but they had so much downtime that people wanted more transparency. Now they have errors that say "we lost a database" and people are saying that's too much information. (I probably would not have made that an error message, but that's just me.)

I think Twitter should stop caring what everyone (especially TechCrunch) thinks and just fix the technical issues. And please fix it soon, because users are getting tired of the same problems!

First Twitter doesn't share enough. Now they share too much. Which is it, Mike? Or have you discovered that every time you blog the word "Twitter" you end up with a few thousand more ad views? ::sigh::

Is this a case of being plain and frank or just plain ignorance? Revealing technical issues like this just seems to tell the whole world that they (twitter) are not too technically sound and things are spinning out of control. what twitter is experiencing now is part of the normal teething problems of any startup but they should be a little more discreet in these issues to save face. A statement like "a slight hitch, we will be right back" would have been more appropriate. It will make more sense to non technical users of twitter

Is there really a joke to this? When someone says, "oh we lost the database" is the running gag suppose to be you better go find it? I also find it silly that everyone jumps in and claims this and that about twitter. If there's a lesson to be learned here it's that PR and spin control is equally as important as your engineers.

...there has been much written in the blogsphere regarding solutions that can solve most of twitter's problems. They should pick one and get one with it. With ~$15M they have no excuses now.