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Re: Serious Twitter, LiveJournal Outage Ongoing

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Post by Stasyan » Thu, Aug 06, 2009, 2:33 PM UTC

rufo wrote: post #5

pclark wrote: post #3

its going to be a productive afternoon without twitter.

Not if I keep checking it every two minutes to see if it's back up. (I don't have a problem - I can quit any time I want!)

It's very easy to quit, I already quit hundreds of times before

Re: Serious Twitter, LiveJournal Outage Ongoing

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Post by figital » Thu, Aug 06, 2009, 2:34 PM UTC

figital wrote: post #6

figital wrote: post #4

identi.ca is up

http://identi.ca/figital

Sorry that was spam (although joke spam). I've been clicking around on identi.ca for 10 minutes ... the navigation is really clunky ... I'd think delicious could handle the traffic and keep users if twitter went down (it's almost the same thing but with more features).

Re: Serious Twitter, LiveJournal Outage Ongoing

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Post by mbenjaminsmith » Thu, Aug 06, 2009, 2:38 PM UTC

My site's down since about 5 minutes ago. It's on App Engine...

Maybe this is more widespread than Twitter? Global cyberattack?

Re: Serious Twitter, LiveJournal Outage Ongoing

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Post by krschultz » Thu, Aug 06, 2009, 2:39 PM UTC

http://istwitterdown.com/

Re: Serious Twitter, LiveJournal Outage Ongoing

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Post by idlewords » Thu, Aug 06, 2009, 2:40 PM UTC

Apparently Facebook is seeing intermittent errors as well, down for a bunch of people. Do these people all share a datacenter?

Re: Serious Twitter, LiveJournal Outage Ongoing

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Post by noodle » Thu, Aug 06, 2009, 2:40 PM UTC

you know, this would be a pretty sneaky way to measure the reach of twitter -- go down for an hour or so in the morning and take a look at the media response metrics.

Re: Serious Twitter, LiveJournal Outage Ongoing

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Post by diego » Thu, Aug 06, 2009, 2:42 PM UTC

nir wrote: post #7

figital wrote: post #4

identi.ca is up

Is there a statistic on how many people use identi.ca? I wonder if it's reliability is due to better design or simply having less users.

Check out alexa, compete, etc. identi.ca would have to be horribly designed in order to run into scalability issues at the current traffic level. Twitter's traffic is two to three orders of magnitude greater.

Re: Serious Twitter, LiveJournal Outage Ongoing

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Post by nick-dap » Thu, Aug 06, 2009, 2:43 PM UTC

"these outages are much more serious. 45 million people worldwide now rely on Twitter as a communication platform"

Riiiight. Rely is a very strong word. How will we do business?! How will we talk to our friends and relatives?!

Let's face it, Twitter solved a problem that never existed.

Re: Serious Twitter, LiveJournal Outage Ongoing

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Post by roc » Thu, Aug 06, 2009, 2:44 PM UTC

federated protocol.

Re: Serious Twitter, LiveJournal Outage Ongoing

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Post by shakhan » Thu, Aug 06, 2009, 2:47 PM UTC

idlewords wrote: post #15

Apparently Facebook is seeing intermittent errors as well, down for a bunch of people. Do these people all share a datacenter?

Yup, I keep getting "Transport error (#1001) while retrieving data from endpoint" intermittently.