{"id":2515,"date":"2008-05-28T14:25:30","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T21:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/28\/the-truth-why-twitter-is-over-capacity\/"},"modified":"2008-05-28T14:55:13","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T21:55:13","slug":"the-truth-why-twitter-is-over-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/28\/the-truth-why-twitter-is-over-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth Why Twitter is Over Capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jeremiah_owyang\/2532225510\/\" title=\"Why Twitter is Over Capacity by jeremiah_owyang, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2136\/2532225510_1217d46bf7.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"365\" alt=\"Why Twitter is Over Capacity\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<center>[See handwritten green notes over image to understand why]<\/center><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>After <em>painstaking <\/em>analysis of Twitter&#8217;s 404 page (above image), I&#8217;ve found the reason for the downtime of Twitter, it&#8217;s not what you expected: the infrastructure, users, or external factors, it really comes down to poor deployment of internal resources.<\/p>\n<p>Whales can only go one way, gotta get those birds going the same way.<\/p>\n<p>Did you like this? <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tech_news\/The_REAL_Truth_Why_Twitter_is_Over_Capacity\"><strong>Digg it<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[See handwritten green notes over image to understand why] 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/28\/the-truth-why-twitter-is-over-capacity\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Truth Why Twitter is Over Capacity<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-micromedia","category-ruminations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}