Was Twitter’s May 8 Downtime on Purpose?

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10 points·edawerd··10 comments

Never attribute to cunning that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.

...except for web 2.0 marketing gimmicks.

(I agree with you though).

God, I'm so sick of hearing about twitter.

So, important people that I follow are no longer going to post on their blog, I have to follow them on twitter?

I've signed up for an account, and yes it wires you in to whats really short term hip and happening, and it certainly does have value in some situations. But with basically an infinite number of people to follow on RSS as it is, where there are meaty articles posted, I still don't see the point.

If it's important enough, it will be posted on their blog, and for most subjects, RSS is more real time than I'd like to see.

Is it only me that thinks that twitter is yet another supposed massive paradigm change, that will actually amount to nothing terribly interesting because the last paradigm worked just fine thank you very much?

That was my opinion at first, but more and more I'm starting to be use Google Reader less and less to stay updated. Once you find some good people to follow on both Twitter and FriendFeed and hook them up in a desktop application with filters, I think that they are becoming more and more useful.

When people start making up ridiculous conspiracy theories about your company you know you've made it.

It was scheduled:

http://status.twitter.com/post/104738920/planned-maintenance...

Who schedules maintenance during peak time?

Don't forget, Twitter is used outside the US as well. Where it was already late evening / early morning.

In India, Twitter went down at 2:00 AM. Nevertheless, people were outraged :p

or insanity

these people have way too much time on their hands

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