Lately, Twitter has been down more than the ground. So many are commenting why Twitter is having so many issues: scalability due to Ruby on Rails, mainstream adoption from press and media, or even just Scoble after two many cappuccinos.
After painstaking analysis of Twitter’s 404 page (above image), I’ve found the reason for the downtime of Twitter, it’s not what you expected: the infrastructure, users, or external factors, it really comes down to poor deployment of internal resources.
Whales can only go one way, gotta get those birds going the same way.
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@# 3 – he means the birds. (But RoR aint helping… hehehe)
Good catch :).
By the way, it’s not a RoR issue. It’s either a lack of servers, or a poorly built infrastructure. Rails scales just fine if you know how to build a scalable application (just like any other framework/language).
@ Ike
Wow, talk about a nerd joke LOL, that’s about the pinnacle… and I can’t believe I got it… crap.
Jeremiah, that’s funny. We were talking about this in my office yesterday; whether it’s good or bad that they have a “cute” 404 page. I’d have to say a bad sign that they do, but brand wise sort of good for us that they acknowledge their issues.
lol nice.
On a serious note, Jeremiah, do you feel Twitter can rebound from their recent miscues and an apparent loss of ‘thunder’ that it held on to for quite some time now?
@alexdc 100 Point word score for the use of Sisyphean!
PEDANT ALERT:
correction: spelt Sisyphean
“Endlessly laborious or futile”
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adj.
1. Greek Mythology. Of or relating to Sisyphus.
2. Endlessly laborious or futile: Their patients’ lack of education and the high cost of medicine make health care a Sisyphean task (Frank Gibney, Jr.).
[From Latin Sisyphēius, from Greek Sisupheios, from Sisuphos, Sisyphus.]
lol I had to reread that and look at the picture again to get that joke. Just got that 404 when I tried to change my picture on there 🙂
He’s right. The twitter page is like a bird(light)What twitter needs now is a whale(big)It’s presently top-heavy so it falls.Unfortunately it can’t be fixed.Once you build a page its done.You have to build a brand new one.And what a page it will be !Wait till you see.Happy hunting.Heigh-ho !
@# 3 – he means the birds. (But RoR aint helping… hehehe)
Theres actually two more..
You think you are funny?
You suck men! REALLY!
Andddd it's down again. Oh, and it's 50% of the birds who are wreaking havoc. Although, it is unclear which 50%. Four one way, four the other, and a possibly stoned whale dangling over….red waves? Fly, birdies, fly!!!
You think you are funny?
You suck men! REALLY!
Andddd it's down again. Oh, and it's 50% of the birds who are wreaking havoc. Although, it is unclear which 50%. Four one way, four the other, and a possibly stoned whale dangling over….red waves? Fly, birdies, fly!!!
ahahahaha dude i love it. those birds. jesus the birds! i hate those stupid birds. and i also ask you this. why don't those stupid birds the drop the white whale back into the ocean. where the damn thing belongs anyway.
you saw that there are two more birds flying to the right?
Theres 4 going left and 4 going right. This rate they'll get nowhere!
Its server issues. IF they tell you different theyre lying. Any ITT TEch junior project manager would tell you that. Need to go to a more flexible, a better load balancing structure, and/or expanding virtualization model.
change the name to twatter
It's not my intention to disapprove with anything here, but, how did you exactly came to this conclusion? I mean, “After painstaking analysis”, where we have done this and that, conclusion is this and that. Well, where is “this and that” in your analysis? If you say something, we would like to know on what grounds was it. I'm not saying you are wrong, but this post looks like “well, we just have to fill out post qouta for today”.
I think they better sell this to Google!!!
not funnyy at all