federated protocol.
That is indeed the solution. If a Twitter type service is to become a real communications platform it must be federated (decentralized) and immune to DOS attacks, government intervention, etc.
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#32its going to be a productive afternoon without twitter.
not for me; instead I'll be reading more on HN.
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#33you 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.
TechCrunch will complain about anything and everything, regardless of its actual importance.
For example, Arrington's house doesn't have electricity this morning. Who cares? Nobody. And yet it is a critical part of this "story".
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#34"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.
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#35Twitter is back for me at 11:07 EST
http://status.twitter.com/ says it's back up too, although they are continuing to defend against the DoS attack.
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#36summize has been working all along ... you can see some tweets occasionally going through during the attack.
The streaming API¹ worked for a bit, but just went down too. For a while it showed that a few tweets were still going through.
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#37you 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.
TechCrunch will complain about anything and everything, regardless of its actual importance. For example, Arrington's house doesn't have electricity this morning. Who cares? Nobody. And yet it is a critical part of this "story".
fair, but i was referring to more mainstream sources.
i'm not trying to imply that this is what is happening, but i do think it could be an interesting metric to compare -- how much noise you get from downtime 6 months ago to the noise of today.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
TechCrunch will complain about anything and everything, regardless of its actual importance. For example, Arrington's house doesn't have electricity this morning. Who cares? Nobody. And yet it is a critical part of this "story".
fair, but i was referring to more mainstream sources. i'm not trying to imply that this is what is happening, but i do think it could be an interesting metric to compare -- how much noise you get from downtime 6 months ago to the noise of today.
It made drudge about 15 minutes ago.
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#39"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.
That's how new markets are born. Back in the day e-mail solved a problem that didn't exist too.
There was no way to transfer a document instantly and without using paper. Faxes were slow and used paper. There was a clear business need.
So I don't think thats a fair comparison. Then again I don't remember those days from personal experiences, just making an assumption.
From a different perspective. If it was serving a need people would be willing to pay for it.
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#40I am not sure if it's related, but I had connection errors with Facebook chat last night around 11pm EST, it was my first time using this feature, so I wrote it off as buggy, and moved the conversation to another chat platform.