Pingdom did a recent report on downtime for social networking sites and determined that Twitter has had way more downtime than other popular social networking sites that are out there like MySpace and Facebook, etc. This didn’t come to me as a huge surprise, I have been using Twitter for about a month or two now and I have personally seen the service go down from time to time.
Being in the industry of web-hosting I can sympathize with the folks at Twitter a little bit, they have probably seen rapid growth in their service that exceeded their expectations. I am not ready to call Twitter a failure by any means at this point, in fact, I think it’s a little harsh for anyone to criticize a service that’s FREE… Just my two cents, here’s a quote from an article I spotted on WHIR this morning:
According to a recent report posted to website and server uptime monitoring service Pingdom’s (pingdom.com) Twitter has been offline for more than 37 hours since January, twice as long as the outage total for the next worst performing website, Reunion.com. Pingdom says Twitter was the only service with uptime below 99 percent.
At the other end of the spectrum, popular social networking site MySpace (myspace.com) had the best overall uptime at 99.96 percent with blogging network Xanga showing the next best uptime at 99.95 percent.
Popular social networking site Facebook (facebook.com) was sixth on the list at 99.91 percent uptime and had around two and a half hours of downtime over the four-month tracking period.
Source: Web Host Industry News | Twitter Leads Social Site Downtime
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