Ask YC: Surprised Twitter Made it Through the Debate?

10 points·iamdave··10 comments

I'm quite surprised and happy for Twitter that they stood the test. Rolling out a new function, taking the hits and came out with absolutely no downtime. That's for sure a strong hit for naysayers

Now if they can keep it up during the average work day when absolutely nothing is going on, that would be an accomplishment.

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"I have to hand it to those guys - they are the only service I know of where users rejoice when they simply manage to keep their service live."

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/10/twitter-fails-to-fail-c...

not really surprised. Its not really a popular service...sure its the great thing since sliced bread for the techie crowd, but for the other 299 million Americans its "twitter who?"

Today was the day when I realised Twitter had truly "made it" as the BBC News website was using it as part of their live text commentary of the debate. You struggle to get much more mainstream than that in the UK.

Not surprised - they've managed to sort out the majority of their performance/reliability problems since the last round of money raising which was dedicated solely to that problem.

Now they just need to figure out how to make money.

they could create private streams and license them to businesses to tell your coworkers what you're working on.

...oh wait...

No, but I'm surprised we're still talking about twitter.

Sadly they also kicked interesting features. I thought being able to see someone's "tweets with friends" was one of the most interesting features, as it provided a quick way to create aggregate feeds (for example for a conference, see all tweets of everyone attending the conference).

Surprised? No, becuse the surge is working.

You know it!

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