Comments on: We Don’t Know What We’re Doing But We’ve Got the Money to Fix It

By: Crowds are dopes. So are individuals. At times. | AccMan

Crowds are dopes. So are individuals. At times. | AccMan — Tue, 27 May 2008 02:40:21 +0000

[...] then provides no analysis of following statements made by the co-founder when it is already evident the company has little clue what the heck it is doing although he does conclude: Despite the obvious good will, Twitter now has an $80 million valuation [...]

By: IT Project Failures mobile edition

IT Project Failures mobile edition — Mon, 26 May 2008 21:45:31 +0000

[...] Zoliblog shares similar concerns about Twitter’s management judgment: On second thought, I am less forgiving. Twitter already raised $5M before this round, that should have allowed them to bring in expertise they clearly lack. If only their priorities were on fixing the service instead of chasing more money. [...]

By: Kyle Sexton

Kyle Sexton — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:28:10 +0000

The really strange thing about all this is that there hasn’t been a shift to another service that is more stable. Maybe Web 2.0 means we are more forgiving of downtime?

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 23 May 2008 12:27:42 +0000

There can’t be too many scenarios of what’s happening.
1. the caching system is not designed very well, and it’s possible that right at the moment of cache building their systems are overloaded with requests
2. someone is flooding them with fake requests

It’s really strange how their infrastructure that hosts a pretty simple system (text posting) is not able to handle loads. maybe they should ask facebook hot to run their infrastructure?

By: My del.icio.us bookmarks for May 19th through May 23rd | AccMan

My del.icio.us bookmarks for May 19th through May 23rd | AccMan — Fri, 23 May 2008 02:31:06 +0000

[...] We Don’t Know What We’re Doing But We’ve Got the Money to Fix It| Zoli’s Blo… – Pitiful the way Twitter's engineers are not 'getting it' [...]