Well, Twitter has been down about 60% of the time for me today, yesterday, the day before, and all of the Holiday weekend that preceded that. Anytime I want to tweet something I have to try multiple ways in… such as Twitterberry, web, Twhirl, etc. Eventually, after several failed attempts, I can get a tweet in to the system.
Because I’m addicted to Twitter and I can’t seem to get my fix thanks to the outages, I’ve decided to put up a post highlighting Twitter happenings for the day.
Enjoy!
1) Fresh Tweet Wordpress Theme
FreshPress Themes released a Wordpress Theme based on the default Twitter home. The theme, Fresh Tweet, is pretty clean looking and could be fun for anyone looking to follow Twitter topics or for any hardcore Twitter fan.
You can see the demo here or go straight to the download page here.
2) Twitter Status Blog
Yesterday Twitter launched an official Twitter Status Blog that will supposedly help track issues behind the site. The problem is that the status blog doesn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know.
In other words… Twitters status is “it’s all screwed up and we have no idea why”.
3) Open Source Twitter Clone
Yeah, that’s right. If any of you code geeks are interested in flirting with the idea of running a Twitter like system of your own… now you can. Meet Twoorl. Source code is here.
4) Twitter, scaling and solving the wrong problem?
Basement Coder has a very good take on the Twitter outage problems. Here is a taste:
It’s not so much that Twitter can’t scale. They’ve got millions and developers. A few smart people could solve the problem, no doubt. It’s that.. well, should it? Twitter is, essentially, a pseudo-realtime multiple-destination complex communications service. Handling all that will be a pain, even with so-called fixes like sharding.
But, I prefer to think of it from another perspective, namely the style after which the service, Twitter, was built. That being the Short Message Service (or SMS), a method of sending short text messages between cellphones.
The telecommunications industry seems able to handle massive flows of traffic, between a lot of different people, with relative ease. The reason for this, or at least, what I believe is the reason for this, is distribution on a scale that a single service would be hard-pressed to match.
Any other Twitter news that I’m missing?
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Well, thanks for that, Eric. Nice to know I have a good take on something!
Arcturus Kirwins last blog post..Twitter, scaling and solving the wrong problem
A good take indeed! I haven’t thought about it from that angle, so it was good to be seeing it from a perspective other than the “Twitter sucks and got too big for its britches” approach.
I play on twitter some, but I never got into it, which is odd. I’m a huge internet and tech geek. I used IM as a teen in high school, but once I got into college, I moved away from most forms of online messaging outside of email. I use GoogleTalk to chat while I have my email up, and I pull up Skype as needed, but I can’t get into things like Twitter.
I think I’m the only person who made it through 4 years of college without sending or receiving a single text message.
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Justin, that used to be me… now I’m hooked!