Twitter Completely Down

Post by Uchikoma » Fri, Jun 22, 2012, 11:23 AM UTC

samehere wrote: post #159

taylorbuley wrote: post #94

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xx Next time your favorite waste of time is down, just shut up about it. xx Twitter is infrastructure for us in media. It's well worth discussion.

that's what you get for not using RSS. also, "us in the media", what kind of whore talk is that even? twitter is correctly referrerd to in w3c docs as medium preventing intelligent discussion. so it was down? GOOD. people are inconvenienced? even better! it cannot possibly have hit anyone or anything that was worth fuck all.

Post by dennisgorelik » Sun, Jun 24, 2012, 10:31 PM UTC

Terretta wrote: post #165

frossie wrote: post #78

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Whoever was in charge of disaster recovery obviously didn't really understand the risk. That's not necessarily true. People don't die when twitter is down, and whatever twitter's business model actually is, I am not even sure there is a monetary penalty to them being down (unlike, say, Amazon being down which results in lost orders). They may have made the calculation that it was not cost effective engineering-wise t…

An e-commerce site being down does not lead to exactly the amount of orders lost as is average for that time. Most people will try again later, with the possible exception of first time buyers and likely exceptin of impatient commodity buyers with alternative accounts.