Twitterers silenced by outage
It’s all gone very quiet
USERS OF the Twitter service were silenced last night.
As world+dog knows, Twitter lets
friends/ colleagues/ enemies/ others know what you’re up to at anytime. Or, if
you’re a pathological liar, what you say you’re up to.
Twitter tends to be divisive, splitting the world into those who think it’s
the best thing since sliced bread* and those who think it’s for egocentric,
metrosexual, don’t-go-out-much dweebs who only ever meet their “friends” in chat
rooms, IM, virtual worlds
and the like.
Anyhow, even if you were a user, you couldn’t use it last night Pacific time as Twitter engineers battled with a planned maintenance window that became an outage.
Staff worked until six in the morning on the problem. In a refreshingly honest statement, the Twitter crew wrote:
“We did go far beyond our planned time window, which sucks. What sucks more is the series of outages (planned and not) we've had lately. We know this makes Twitter frustrating to use, and we want you to know, we hear (and share) your frustration and are working really, really hard to fix it.” µ
* Why always with the sliced bread when we need to say something is so great? It’s tasteless, full of preservatives and it’s not like it’s so hard to slice your own loaf.
Comments
sliced bread
Back in the last century during WWII, or was it WWI? I forget. Anyway, everyone was to turn in their bread knives cos the war effort needed the steel. Thus was born the pre-sliced loaf, saving the skullery maid countless hours of slicing and the associated tendonitis (although they did not call it that back then). Skullery maids everywhere loved the pre slice loaf and thus was born the adage.Uh, yeah, WWII and stuff...
Of course that's where the adage came from, gosh, world+john frey knows that, dont YOU even know it?On a serious note though, john frey, chill out.