Comments on: Social network downtime Jan-Apr 2008

By: Josh Chandler » Will Twitter ever be able to update databases in realtime without bringing Twitter.com down?

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:28:09 +0000

[...] on this site for “real time conversations” 5 days is a long time! And in 2008, within the first 4 months of the year Twitter had already had 37 hrs and 16 mins of downtime, the highest of any social [...]

By: Social networking quirks that annoy me | MarketMe 2.0

Social networking quirks that annoy me | MarketMe 2.0 — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:31:00 +0000

[...] the first four months of 2008, Twitter experienceduptime of just 98.72 percent, for a grand total of 37 hours and 16 minutes down. Bebo was down for [...]

By: Matter box’s physical failings « Curiously Persistent

Matter box’s physical failings « Curiously Persistent — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:53:42 +0000

[...] As a society, we appear to be increasingly intolerant of inconvenience. We expect things to work. Because if it doesn’t in this age of choice, we can go elsewhere. Witness the furore of Twitter’s downtime, and the Fail Whale. Yet according to Royal Pingdom, Twitter still had 98.72% uptime. [...]

By: Seeking to Understand » Blog Archive » Tweet Tweet

Seeking to Understand » Blog Archive » Tweet Tweet — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:25:39 +0000

[...] I’ve been using Twitter more lately. Perhaps because my company is working on a Twitter client (among many other things)… or perhaps because it fills some deep void in my online life… or perhaps because I like pain (especially in light of just how often Twitter is down)… [...]

By: r-echos » Blog Archive » Twitter Availability & Response Times: A Mixed Bag

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:48:41 +0000

[...] 2% downtime means that twitter.com/home is unavailable for 115 minutes every 4 days. The leading social networking sites Myspace and Facebook were each down a total of 20 minutes for the entire month of April! Through [...]

By: Before you breakup with Twitter…

Before you breakup with Twitter… — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:46:56 +0000

[...] has been down quite a bit, in fact, according to royal pingdom, they’re the social network that has been down the most over Q1, 2008. Most suggest it’s due to the lack of ability to scale, and as more and more users come, and [...]

By: Twitter: un ottimo servizio rovinato da una pessima affidabilità | Giovy's Blog

Thu, 22 May 2008 07:14:23 +0000

[...] ad aprile 2007, Twitter ha vinto la gara del "social network più inaffidabile" con 37 ore e 16 minuti di downtime. Di contro, Facebook (che ha molti più utenti di Twitter ed è tecnicamente molto più [...]

By: 99.999….The Quest for Reliability on the Internet - GigaOM

99.999….The Quest for Reliability on the Internet - GigaOM — Wed, 21 May 2008 04:12:16 +0000

[...] 99.999 percent uptime for a web site equates to just 5.26 minutes of downtime per year. That is the total amount of downtime — planned or unplanned — as seen by users. According to a report last month by Pingdom, only three of the top 20 most popular web sites achieved this metric in 2007: Yahoo, AOL and Comcast’s site for high-speed Internet customers (eBay’s site was close, with only six minutes of downtime in 2007). Another report by Pingdom shows that most of the popular social networks did not achieve even three nines (or less that 525.6 minutes of downtime) in the first four months of 2008. Moreover, none achieved anywhere close to 99.999 percent uptime. [...]

By: How much downtime would you put up with from your SaaS app? at diversity.net.nz

How much downtime would you put up with from your SaaS app? at diversity.net.nz — Wed, 21 May 2008 03:49:48 +0000

[...] for their lack of up-time. Allan Leinwand at Gigamo is too, only he’s found some empirical evidence. (This is the actual service uptime, but as evidence it supports my claims that some of these web [...]

By: Announcing the Totally Unofficial Build a Better Twitter Contest | Blogging

Announcing the Totally Unofficial Build a Better Twitter Contest | Blogging — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:15:09 +0000

[...] By February, the headlines read Twitter Down; Sky is Blue. In more scientific reporting, Pingdom ranked Twitter dead last in social networking uptime from January through April. How bad was it? Twitter was down more than 37 hours in four months. And [...]