Comments on: Twitter’s starting to get my goat http://techticker.net/2008/01/16/twitters-starting-to-get-my-goat/ educational technology, eLearning & emerging technology Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:34:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Neil Hutson - Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 for developers : Twitter rumor that they are abandoning Ruby on Rails http://techticker.net/2008/01/16/twitters-starting-to-get-my-goat/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Neil Hutson - Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 for developers : Twitter rumor that they are abandoning Ruby on Rails Fri, 02 May 2008 04:29:25 +0000 http://mbogle.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/twitters-starting-to-get-my-goat/#comment-18 [...] I guess after two years plugging the holes, there are rumors that Twitter is planning to move from Ruby on Rails because of scalability issues, the most embarrassing being the failure during the Keynote at Mac World. [...] [...] I guess after two years plugging the holes, there are rumors that Twitter is planning to move from Ruby on Rails because of scalability issues, the most embarrassing being the failure during the Keynote at Mac World. [...]

]]> By: gregory http://techticker.net/2008/01/16/twitters-starting-to-get-my-goat/comment-page-1/#comment-17 gregory Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:58:00 +0000 http://mbogle.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/twitters-starting-to-get-my-goat/#comment-17 bandwidth and server capacity/maintenance seem to be limits that no one talks about in the popular tech press<br/><br/>i think it is going to be like driving on the freeways pretty soon, look at all the cool cars, going nowhere for hours<br/><br/>the economist is the only publication i have seen address this, the industry doesn't want to hear it, i think bandwidth and server capacity/maintenance seem to be limits that no one talks about in the popular tech press

i think it is going to be like driving on the freeways pretty soon, look at all the cool cars, going nowhere for hours

the economist is the only publication i have seen address this, the industry doesn’t want to hear it, i think

]]> By: RJ http://techticker.net/2008/01/16/twitters-starting-to-get-my-goat/comment-page-1/#comment-16 RJ Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:11:00 +0000 http://mbogle.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/twitters-starting-to-get-my-goat/#comment-16 Good point Good point

]]> By: Mike Bogle http://techticker.net/2008/01/16/twitters-starting-to-get-my-goat/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Mike Bogle Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:59:00 +0000 http://mbogle.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/twitters-starting-to-get-my-goat/#comment-15 @RJ - Building a start-up when applications like Twitter are already dominating the space would be a very risky venture. <br/><br/>Besides my complaint isn't about the app itself - I quite like Twitter in that respect - but rather the holes in their maintenance and management of acceptable service levels.<br/><br/>From a service delivery standpoint this is where the importance of users voicing their complaints lay. It gives Twitter a more accurate picture of user satisfaction levels. <br/><br/>Users will only put up with outages like this for so long before they leave the application for greener pastures. Twitter is better off having access to these complaints - as hard as they may be to listen to sometimes - as it gives them a clear picture of the areas that are bothering users the most and therefore helps influence decisions of resource allocation.<br/><br/>If users don't say anything the exodus may come out of the blue from service provider's perspective as public opinion would have been relatively silent on the subject. @RJ – Building a start-up when applications like Twitter are already dominating the space would be a very risky venture.

Besides my complaint isn’t about the app itself – I quite like Twitter in that respect – but rather the holes in their maintenance and management of acceptable service levels.

From a service delivery standpoint this is where the importance of users voicing their complaints lay. It gives Twitter a more accurate picture of user satisfaction levels.

Users will only put up with outages like this for so long before they leave the application for greener pastures. Twitter is better off having access to these complaints – as hard as they may be to listen to sometimes – as it gives them a clear picture of the areas that are bothering users the most and therefore helps influence decisions of resource allocation.

If users don’t say anything the exodus may come out of the blue from service provider’s perspective as public opinion would have been relatively silent on the subject.

]]> By: Lion http://techticker.net/2008/01/16/twitters-starting-to-get-my-goat/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Lion Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:02:00 +0000 http://mbogle.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/twitters-starting-to-get-my-goat/#comment-14 From Crunchbase:<br/>Twitter funding<br/>July 07 2007 <br/>Series B <br/>$5.40M <br/><br/>Charles River Ventures<br/>Union Square Ventures<br/>Marc Andreessen<br/>Dick Costolo<br/>Naval Ravikant<br/>Ron Conway From Crunchbase:
Twitter funding
July 07 2007
Series B
$5.40M

Charles River Ventures
Union Square Ventures
Marc Andreessen
Dick Costolo
Naval Ravikant
Ron Conway

]]> By: RJ http://techticker.net/2008/01/16/twitters-starting-to-get-my-goat/comment-page-1/#comment-13 RJ Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:56:00 +0000 http://mbogle.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/twitters-starting-to-get-my-goat/#comment-13 Maybe you can build a substitute.<br/><br/>Or you can just complain and wait for someone else to do it - and have them get all the money ;) Maybe you can build a substitute.

Or you can just complain and wait for someone else to do it – and have them get all the money ;)

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