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Re: Twitter down?

#23
post #10

I swear, the way people panic when it drops off, Twitter is way more like a protocol than a website. It's like someone saying "Email is broken... Everywhere".

No panic, just having converstation about it! :) I think we can see it more like a service.

Re: Twitter down?

#25

What's the point of a status subdomain if it doesn't contain the current status? http://status.twitter.com/

Because these pages tend to be highly curated and manually updated; they don't actually give a live perspective of actual service outages. If they were actual automated status pages, we'd learn how often a service really does go down for 2-3 minutes at a time while no one really notices.

Re: Twitter down?

#27

RSS is still up.

You know what RSS lacks? Speed, which is inversely proportional to the diameter of the aperture. Twitter's character limit is a feature, not a bug.

Has someone tried building a 140-char RSS network?

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