How Many Times ..

Does a web service have to go down and be very unstable before we all decide to leave their sandbox and go play in someone else’s ?

As I am sure all of us Twitter’holics are aware, Twitter has been a bit of a dubious uptime record. Especially lately with the growth in users, big events like the primaries, etc. We touched on this back in an earlier post. Lately it seems however, that I have been seeing more and more of the “Something is wrong” message when I go to access Twitter. According to the Twitter blog they have been undergoing some much needed infrastructure changes, which is a good thing, but with continued downtime, it is not.

The good news is we finished a major infrastructure project tonight, which we’ve been working on for months and that we think is going to help a lot. I’m sure there will be some glitches in the coming weeks, but we’ve laid some important foundation that’s going to help us build toward the future.

We Web 2.0 people can be a fickle bunch. We have latched onto Twitter with a vengeance and use it in oh so many ways. It has the potential to be a foundation for many things to come, but how long will people tolerate the instability before moving to the next great thing ?

So what do you all think ? How much longer does twitter have to work it all out before people start heading for the exits ?

UPDATE:  Just after publishing this, I went over to Twitter to find the following “Something is Technically Wrong”