2 Days of SXSW, Twitter Going Strong
March 8, 2008 · Print This Article
Well I must admit, if I was a betting man, I would have bet we would have seen one of those “Something has gone technically wrong” screens as we tried to use Twitter by now. But much to my pleasant surprise, we have not. Actually it just dawned on me this morning as I was finishing up some final touches on the blog redesign. I thought “Heh Twitter has not crashed yet ..”
I mentioned previously about a post by Allen Stern over at CenterNetworks detailing the preparations by the Twitter team leading up to SXSW. The included increasing capacity, reducing API calls allowed, as well as some other measures. And apparently it has worked pretty well up until this point.
To be honest though, this is how it should be. We should not being using one of our favorite web services while in the back of our heads, we are just waiting for it to crash out from under us. But i am happy to see up until this point, I have been proven wrong. I figured we would all be running for the Pownce hills.
Maybe this is a corner turned for the Twitter folks. This will be a big feather in their cap if they can sustain the momentum and carry it out of SXSW into a bright future. Great job so far guys.
I too thought that Twitter would crumble under the SXSW onslaught, and was just as surprised and delighted that it didn’t. This is the way it should be. I don’t wonder if my cell phone will be down every time I pick up up. Same with email or almost any other communications device. Twitter is young, though. And free.
Now, people have talked about using Twitter during some sort of disaster scenario. Its certainly not tested to that capacity, but it’s good to see they’ve been able to handle SXSW and in general have seemed to make things much more stable recently.
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