DISQUS

Mathew's comments: Twitter gets cash — can it be fixed?

  • bbluesman · 1 year ago
    I'd like to think that with Jeff Board he'd be bringing some of his back-end engineering support as well, to get better return on his investment and help this wounded whale bird fly right. Time will tell.
  • Mark Dykeman · 1 year ago
    Oddly enough, I wrote a rant about Twitter at almost exactly the same time as you wrote this blog post.

    I agree with you. I think they should be a robust system in parallel with the current system, then migrate us to the new one. Heck, they can have a whole weekend to do that if they want, fine by me.
  • Mark Dykeman · 1 year ago
    Just thought I'd mention that my rant won't actually be published until tomorrow (Wednesday)
  • mathewi · 1 year ago
    I agree, Mark. They need to fix this thing once and for all.
  • Ken Burbary · 1 year ago
    In addition to the new funding and management support from Jeff and Bijan, Twitter has also recently hired some large scale computing heavy hitters to solve the architecture problem. John Adams is the new Director of Operations. He was interviewed by @techcrunch recently and discussed this very problem and some of what he'll do to solve it.

    http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/23/john-adams...

    Let's hope this finally gets them over the hump so we can all stop writing blog posts about how poorly Twitter is behaving.
  • Paul Marshall · 1 year ago
    The good news for Twitter is that I as well as many others that I follow and connect with have not (and inexplicably) cannot/willnot leave despite my new found hatred for flying whales. I know there has been people leaving, but I haven't seen it in my follow groups. If we have toughed it out this long I think the majority will wait it out at this point. What this means to Twitter is bring in the right people (John Adams et al), use the new funding and put all the technology problems to bed.

    One thought though...if Twitter no longer has any technical problems to post about I expect the volume of Tweets to drop dramatically, which will implicitlt help fix the problem....hmmmm.