Comments on: Twitter Is Unreliable http://www.matthewrock.com/2008/05/21/twitter-is-unreliable/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:54:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: tina http://www.matthewrock.com/2008/05/21/twitter-is-unreliable/comment-page-1/#comment-7397 tina Sun, 25 May 2008 19:09:26 +0000 http://www.matthewrock.com/2008/05/21/twitter-is-unreliable/#comment-7397 Meh, from a social standpoint, I dunno if I wanna know what my friends are doing at every moment. I'm shying away from even updating my status on facebook - obviously it's all about how much personal privacy you want to maintain (which is opposite of belonging to a social network like twitter or FB...ya im bein a hermit i guess ;) Meh, from a social standpoint, I dunno if I wanna know what my friends are doing at every moment. I’m shying away from even updating my status on facebook - obviously it’s all about how much personal privacy you want to maintain (which is opposite of belonging to a social network like twitter or FB…ya im bein a hermit i guess ;)

]]> By: Leila Dee http://www.matthewrock.com/2008/05/21/twitter-is-unreliable/comment-page-1/#comment-7387 Leila Dee Sun, 25 May 2008 11:40:57 +0000 http://www.matthewrock.com/2008/05/21/twitter-is-unreliable/#comment-7387 Please explain to your friend what a "mantra" is. Please explain to your friend what a “mantra” is.

]]> By: Tess http://www.matthewrock.com/2008/05/21/twitter-is-unreliable/comment-page-1/#comment-7331 Tess Wed, 21 May 2008 15:51:10 +0000 http://www.matthewrock.com/2008/05/21/twitter-is-unreliable/#comment-7331 I do love Google, and one of my mantras in life is to consolidate information in ONE PLACE whenever possible. Leave it to Google to take care of this for me (I hope). I will say though that sometimes Google things are down. Gchat definitely has its service slumps, and for a couple of hours yesterday afternoon my Gcal wasn't working. And there was that one time, that one horrible time, when Google let me down. They cleared all the Sticky Notes in my Google Homepage, so that all the lists I was keeping were completely wiped out, never to return. But for all the days they didn't let me down, I am thankful. I do love Google, and one of my mantras in life is to consolidate information in ONE PLACE whenever possible. Leave it to Google to take care of this for me (I hope). I will say though that sometimes Google things are down. Gchat definitely has its service slumps, and for a couple of hours yesterday afternoon my Gcal wasn’t working. And there was that one time, that one horrible time, when Google let me down. They cleared all the Sticky Notes in my Google Homepage, so that all the lists I was keeping were completely wiped out, never to return. But for all the days they didn’t let me down, I am thankful.

]]> By: Jon Lumpkin http://www.matthewrock.com/2008/05/21/twitter-is-unreliable/comment-page-1/#comment-7330 Jon Lumpkin Wed, 21 May 2008 15:01:38 +0000 http://www.matthewrock.com/2008/05/21/twitter-is-unreliable/#comment-7330 It looks like Jaiku is a lot like friend feed - aggregating your information from multiple channels. I have a friend feed account, but dont really use it. I have a pownce account, but hate it. I really want Twitter to work. One of the biggest things right now would to be at least notify people 'yes we are actually down right now and we are working on it' It looks like Jaiku is a lot like friend feed - aggregating your information from multiple channels. I have a friend feed account, but dont really use it. I have a pownce account, but hate it. I really want Twitter to work. One of the biggest things right now would to be at least notify people ‘yes we are actually down right now and we are working on it’

]]> By: Chris Stewart http://www.matthewrock.com/2008/05/21/twitter-is-unreliable/comment-page-1/#comment-7329 Chris Stewart Wed, 21 May 2008 14:34:03 +0000 http://www.matthewrock.com/2008/05/21/twitter-is-unreliable/#comment-7329 Yeah, Twitter has been down a lot lately, and it sucks. I'm not quite ready to bounce over to Jaiku or Pownce just yet. Twitter is better in my opinion, if the service was reliable of course. You mention the 5 million they recently closed in funding. Hopefully in time this will help their problem. Throwing money at the problem doesn't really help, especially when we consider that they have a system running in production. It takes time to get new people in house, get them up to speed, and figure out how to redesign Twitter. I think it's a big deal to essentially rebuild the whole product. And now they have a huge dependency of all the data currently stored. There really are a lot of problems they have to tackle and they're not trivial. Definitely hoping the service gets better because I do love me some Twitter. Yeah, Twitter has been down a lot lately, and it sucks. I’m not quite ready to bounce over to Jaiku or Pownce just yet. Twitter is better in my opinion, if the service was reliable of course.

You mention the 5 million they recently closed in funding. Hopefully in time this will help their problem. Throwing money at the problem doesn’t really help, especially when we consider that they have a system running in production. It takes time to get new people in house, get them up to speed, and figure out how to redesign Twitter. I think it’s a big deal to essentially rebuild the whole product. And now they have a huge dependency of all the data currently stored. There really are a lot of problems they have to tackle and they’re not trivial.

Definitely hoping the service gets better because I do love me some Twitter.

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