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Main on October 10th, 2008 by Pingdom
LinkedIn, the popular social network for professionals, has had several periods of downtime lately. The last one came last evening (US time), and lasted just over an hour.
The website’s recurring availability issues are making us wonder if LinkedIn has perhaps started to run into scaling issues. According to their website, LinkedIn currently has more than 25 million users, compared to 14 million a year ago. That’s almost a doubling of their user base in just a year.
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Main on September 30th, 2008 by Pingdom
Facebook passed MySpace in worldwide traffic a while ago, but MySpace has kept dominating the US market. Well, it looks like that is about to change really soon.
Within a month (or two at the most), if the current trend holds, Facebook will have more daily visitors than MySpace in the US according to Google Trends for Websites.
We have dug up a very telling graph, and also delve into some speculation about where Facebook is getting its users from.
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Main on August 12th, 2008 by Pingdom
With the help of Google data, we have looked at 12 of the top social networks to answer a simple, but highly interesting question: Where are they the most popular? The social networks we included in this survey were MySpace, Facebook, Hi5, Friendster, LinkedIn, Orkut, Last.fm, LiveJournal, Xanga, Bebo, Imeem and Twitter. Popularity by country [...]
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Main on May 6th, 2008 by Pingdom
This survey shows how much 16 of the largest and most popular social network sites have been unavailable during the first four months of 2008. How much has MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, Twitter, LiveJournal and many others been offline? Read on to find out. The monitoring for this survey was done using the Pingdom uptime monitoring [...]
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Main on February 26th, 2008 by Pingdom
This is a list of 14 of the largest social networks in the world, and how much downtime they have had so far in 2008. Social network site downtime, Jan 1 – Feb 25, 2008 Social Network Home page (monitored) Downtime in 2008 (until Feb 25) Bebo www.bebo.com 12h 28m Windows Live Spaces spaces.live.com 7h [...]
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Main on February 14th, 2008 by Pingdom
The social network site Bebo has for the last three months been experiencing a trend of increasing downtime. The popular social networking service had only five minutes of downtime in November and 30 minutes in December, but in January that increased to five hours and 20 minutes. Looking at Bebo’s downtime so far in February, [...]
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Main on December 19th, 2007 by Pingdom
In most ways, 2007 has been a great year for Twitter. The service has grown tremendously and has become one of the big social network successes. The flip side of this popularity is that they have often been unable to handle all the traffic their large user base has been bringing in, which has affected [...]
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Main on November 21st, 2007 by Pingdom
Social networks are more popular than ever, and are flourishing in the Web 2.0 era. With their huge user numbers, it is very important for these websites to have a high availability. For the largest social networks, a broken website usually means closing the door on millions of people. To see how reliable they are, [...]
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