Twitter, Uptime, & Product Reliability

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Michael Koby

Twitter has been pretty much unusable the last 2 weeks.  Things started to get bad last week, and then over the weekend they had a database crash which has caused them to turn features off and have extremely slow performance since Friday.

Twitter has never been perfect.  Its consistant downtime has been the subject of much debate since the the service debuted a little over a year ago.  The continuance of this downtime at greater intervals over the last month has rendered the service all but useless.

Current issues include:

  • No pagenation on Twitter website
  • No IM support (some of us don’t have unlimited text messaging)
  • Constant “Limit Exceeded” on API driven applications (even when there is NO way an app could have hit the limit) – this is apparently due to a throttle placed on the API that Twitter has not made extremely known.
  • Slow performance resulting in missing updates completely or getting them late

With these kind of issues, and no real word on when things will return to “normal” it is distressing to see that people still use and rely on this service (myself included).  Imagine what would happen if someone like Paris Hilton or Britney Spears started using Twitter.  The service would crumble from the spike in usage.  Twitter needs to get its act together, because if this keeps up much longer, people really will move to something else (FriendFeed?) if they find Twitter to be this continuously unreliable.

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links for 2008-05-28

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Michael Koby
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Social Media Burnout (again?)

Posted on May 27, 2008 by Michael Koby

Over the past week and a half to two weeks, I have been experiencing a little bit of social media burnout.  I haven’t been really active on Digg in about a month or 2, I haven’t logged into FriendFeed in about 2 weeks, and I haven’t checked Google Reader in about as long.

I find this very interesting, because I derive some form of pleasure from keeping up with everyone and with what’s going on in the world of technology and the social web.  There’s just too much to keep up with though.  Or at least it appears that way.

What about you my dear reader, are you experiencing a burnout on social media?  How are you coping with this consistant flow of information?  Have you cut back or are you still diving head first into the social (and I don’t mean the Zune)?

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Presidential Cadnidates & Their Pastors [Video]

Posted on May 27, 2008 by Michael Koby

This week’s video I call into question the uproar over the presidential canidates and the things their pastor(s) say.  Really folks, there are real issues to consider.  Why are we focused on something as trivial as this?

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links for 2008-05-27

Posted on May 27, 2008 by Michael Koby
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Win-X-Move

Posted on May 25, 2008 by Michael Koby

Last night my friend (another Linux junkie stuck in a Windows world) showed me a small little application called Win-X-Move.  This program is probably the coolest thing since sliced bread.  It gives you the ability to move and resize windows with the ALT key and your left & right mouse buttons, just like in several Linux window managers.

  • Alt+Left Mouse Button = Move window
  • Alt+Right Mouse Button = Resize window

This is such a nice feature and one that I was looking to get into Windows a couple of weeks ago.  So go my friend for finding this and letting me know about it.

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