Posts Tagged with ‘fail-whale’

Hello. I'm Svetlana and I'm a FriendFeed addict. I have a habit of checking FriendFeed every time that I strike out every single completed task on my to-do list (yes, I admit that I'm conservative enough to still do it on paper). A few minutes earlier I clicked the "Publish" button on the previous post and went to FriendFeed to see if I had anything urgent or interesting to reply to. And I failed. No, I mean [...]

You remember that only a week ago we were all betting if Twitter really recovered and we will see Fail Whale only when it really means maintenance, not some unexpected crash. Twitter users that left to FriendFeed or Identi.ca started to mention that they could still return to Twitter if it really proves to be back to stable again.
And to a certain extent our expectations were met - we had API requests lifted to 100 after 20 per hour and [...]

Finally we are beginning to see the fruits of the huge boost in Twitter's funding, something that the Twitter team is no doubt relieved to see as well. Granted, saying that Twitter's failure numbers have been drastically reduced is similar to Ford saying that Focus SVT engine fires were becoming less frequent a few years back, but I suppose we'll take what we can get.
Ev Williams, co-founder of Twitter, wrote a blog post in which he documented the [...]

I had the idea for this post earlier this week when I realized that Twitter's API being broken was causing issues, but we still weren't leaving. Cyndy covered that failure of Twitter users to vote with our feet in her article on Tweeterboard closing, and I touched on it briefly this week when I talked about Twitter telling its own users to access their replies through Summize. In spite of all of this, we aren't leaving - we're creating workarounds.
Why [...]

When the ship is sinking and the closest land is a tiny island, you want things and people that work and that bring benefit to the table in your lifeboat - it increases your chances of survival. This is Life 101 level knowledge, yet Twitter seems to have forgotten it lately. Even writing this post makes me cringe a bit - you all know I am a heavy Twitter user and a total cheerleader for the service. That said, these [...]

Twitter may be the darling of the social media set right now and the addiction of many both in and out of social media circles, but it has certainly been going through some growing pains lately. Because of this, Twitter users have had to seek ways around the Twitter issues to make sure they don't lose the thread of their conversations.
It is a testament to Twitter user loyalty that Twitter users are so willing to use third party services [...]