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Hey, Steve — you broke the Internet

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

Thanks for all the great toys, Uncle Steve, but did you have to go and break the Internet? I and about 7,000 other people were all signed up to get Twitter updates from MacRumors, but I never saw a single one — and in fact the entire Twitter.com network was virtually unusable f ... Continue reading »

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  • JeanHuguesRobert

    1 year ago

    Fun. Thanks.
    reply
  • drBaher

    1 year ago

    Despite the high profile event, twitter guys were not ready... Maybe twitter is technically limited (rails anyone?), I think they own their community an explanation.

    My post about it http://technozzle.com/?p=40
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  • allen

    1 year ago

    hey mathew - maybe someone turned off twitter with a remote control?
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  • mathewi

    1 year ago

    Heh. Gizmodo actually wrote that into a post when Jobs' Flickr stream
    didn't work -- said it wasn't them :-)
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  • Stu

    1 year ago

    Internet worked great for me. Oh yeah, guess the blogosphere didn't realize that the vapid circle jerk known as twitter isn't actually the internet...
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  • mathewi

    1 year ago

    Thanks, Stu. Missed you lately :-)
    reply
  • Azhar

    1 year ago

    I was only at MacrumorsLive, they were awesome throughout the entire thing. Its quite stunning to read the system behind it (they've posted it somewhere). I'm sure it'll easily touch 220k plus just on MCLive's site.
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  • John Furrier

    1 year ago

    Web 2.0 is breaking...is this the beginning of the bubble pop..is cnn, nytime, cnbc laughing at us??

    the tail can wag the dog! soon...
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  • John Furrier

    1 year ago

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  • laza

    1 year ago

    Updates from macrumors via the "old school" internet technology IRC worked without a flaw. And fast.
    reply
  • kp

    1 year ago

    MacRumorsLive.com rocked!! I was at a customer location on consulting engagement (wink wink)...I was up to speed...thanks to MacRumors!
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  • lmjabreu

    1 year ago

    I'd love to see some graphs of all that, apple store, twitter, etc, must be really awesome haha.
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  • gregory

    1 year ago

    but this is the future... more cool apps racing with bandwidth and server capacity and that is why the economist predicted that the web would slow down in 2008

    get used to it
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  • ianbetteridge

    1 year ago

    If by "cool", you mean "badly written"... yeah. Twitter is not great tech, unfortunately, and it simply won't scale much further - which is one of the reasons that Google didn't buy it.
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  • Daniel Shaw

    1 year ago

    @ian Maybe, but remember that the Twitter team is almost all ex-Googlers already. It don't think it would make sense to acquire them again.
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  • Robert

    1 year ago

    TUAW was barely able to handle the load, although I was able to see more updates from them then I was GeekbriefTV.

    Funny You never hear about people lining up the night before at a Microsoft convention. . . . .

    Good for you Steve I hope you break the internet next year too. . . . .
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  • Emon

    1 year ago

    I'd actually got live updates directly via MacRumorsLive without a hitch, photos and all.
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  • Robb Montgomery

    1 year ago

    Yeah, I was posting up live blogging sources for the keynote yesterday for Visual Editors when I saw all these live blogging attempts fail.

    Matthew, I have more examples in the post. Macrumors has always been the best. For the past few years they have beaten everyone hands down with text and photos.

    The qik.com live video crowd with their N95 camera phones were crunched down too as qik servers failed, often.

    Twitter was worthless - again.

    I did get to hear about the last 30 minutes of live audio from iJustine's qik feed. but her video bandwidth was wasted as she must have had the n95 on her lap and pointed to the roof. for fear, no doubt, of being detected. Wonder if they will ban n95s in future. Hmm.

    More at http://www.visualeditors.com including the video that shows the Steve Jobs keynote in only 60 seconds.

    Wired had the best write-up blow by blow.
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  • mathewi

    1 year ago

    Thanks, Robb.
    reply
  • Jamie Duncan Nesta

    1 year ago

    SlashGear.com covers the keynote and stays online too
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