[115680] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using twitter as an outage notification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Manthey)
Sun Jul 5 06:41:41 2009
From: Marc Manthey <marc@let.de>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <DC1DE221-8EEB-42E8-A34E-E11DA8B7198D@arbor.net>
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 12:40:28 +0200
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>> Is Twitter making a profit or not?
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> The other consideration is scalability and reliability. Twitter has =20=
> been subject to numerous feature disablements due to capacity =20
> issues, as well as complete outages. Furthermore, Twitter does not =20=
> appear to be deployed in a distributed, highly-available architecture.
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> The Twitter *aggregation/attention model* is what is of great =20
> interest, any merits of the specific service aside.
exactly, its like VHS versus BETAMAX , not the better system wins,its =20=
just better maketing and popularity.
just my 2 cents
http://identi.ca/macbroadcast/ < the opensource distributed =20
alternative > http://laconi.ca/
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