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Twitter Status - Lost a database

Posted on June 6th, 2008 by megalar

Twitter Status - Lost a database

Status - Something else is broken.

That is what the message should say. I am not a hater. I’m quite the fanboy actually. I’ve went so far as to call people who bitch about a douche on public forums. Not something I’m proud of, I’m just saying, don’t think I’m a hater.

I’m not really sure this new transparency that is trying out is helping to strengthen their public image. From what I’ve seen it mainly gives the haters ammo. Before they would just whine about being down, now they can point to parts of the architecture and sound knowledgeable.

I would prefer to know what’s going on with my favorite web app and I’m glad they make us aware. However recently the “web2.0 community” has suffered from quite a few negative , i.e. the “ is better than ” garbage. So I’m not sure if is really doing what’s best for by trying to fill in the end user.

You may have noticed that I called my favorite web app in my previous paragraph. That was no slip on my part. is my favorite web app. That being said, I refuse to fall into any of these silly arguments. is a strong contender to replace as my favorite simply because is inherent in it’s design and that’s what I look for in most of my apps. That’s what I’m interested in. While others use as a communication device, I use it as a real time memetracker. All the tools out there help quite a bit though. won’t need those tools.It should be noted that even if is replaced on my favorites list, I will never abandon .

I think I’ve about said all I can say for now (and I don’t really think I’ve said anything at all) so…
Insert catchy “signing out” phrase here.

UPDATE: Friday morning DB problem meh.

Oh Noz! Mah Twittah Iz Daon

Posted on May 26th, 2008 by megalar

From is twitter dying?:

It seems that everyday now there is a problem with . Not too long ago I heard say that if the public jumps on it will go down. Is that what is happening? Today their main database, db006, went down. I always know something is wrong when Twhirl wont let me get tweets even if I haven’t gone over the limit.

It seems from the comments that people are pretty understanding when it comes to . I tend to agree with them, to a certain point. Free services such as Wordpress. have brought expectations up on free services. Although, the can be quite frustrating.

Why can’t they just get some decent hardware and produce some better uptime? I’m sure it wouldn’t be hard to raise some money.

Lets take a closer look at this:
“Not too long ago I heard say that if the public jumps on it will go down. Is that what is happening?”
Fearmonger.
“It seems from the comments that people are pretty understanding when it comes to .”
Look again, people are acting like children. Everything is normal.
“Free services such as Wordpress. have brought expectations up on free services.”
11,000 nails per hour. That’s an old article. How many hits per hour you think it gets now? My money is on more. You think wordpress gets that kinda traffic? Doubtful. If for no other reason than the posts are usually longer than a tweet so people take longer to read them.
“Why can’t they just get some decent hardware and produce some better uptime?”
You are confusing the issue. They are in the middle of an almost complete architectural redesign. Also, can you imagine the size of the db? I can’t. You ever do a backup restore of a db larger than ~100mb? It takes a while.

I don’t mean to pick on you dude. Truth is, I picked your post because it was the first in the link list on man down. Please don’t take all this the wrong way. I think most of the we see about this outage is due to ’s new policy of trying to be more transparent about service problems. And for the record, I doubt is dying. But what do I know.

links for 2008-05-05

Posted on May 5th, 2008 by megalar

Twitterment::What are we twittering?

Posted on April 21st, 2007 by alt3r3g0

What are we twittering?

Twitter / Hasselhoff

Posted on April 20th, 2007 by alt3r3g0

O’Reilly Radar > ’sfearthquakes’ on Twitter

Posted on April 20th, 2007 by alt3r3g0

One of my favorite business model suggestions for entrepreneurs is, find an old UNIX command that hasn’t yet been implemented on the web, and fix that.

Coding Horror: Reddit: Language vs. Platform

Posted on April 20th, 2007 by alt3r3g0

My previous entry, : Service vs. Platform, was widely misunderstood. I suppose I only have myself to blame, so I’ll try to clarify with another example.

Twitter, Rails, Hammers, and 11,000 Nails per Second — Thought Palace

Posted on April 20th, 2007 by alt3r3g0

There’s an interesting kerfluffle going on regarding the scaling woes that . is going through, especially since it’s built on Ruby On Rails.

w.d.w.: whoring out my lifestream by posting to del.icio.us and come to think of it by posting to twitter

Posted on April 16th, 2007 by Twitter w.d.w.

w.d.w.: whoring out my lifestream by posting to and come to think of it by posting to

My LifeStream

Posted on April 15th, 2007 by megalar

I’ve decided to jump on the lifestream bandwagon full force. Check it out at [XILED] . So far I have my del.icio.us, last.fm,
Digg, and CoComment feeds going there. You might ask why I would do this since all that info is available in my sidebar on this site. The answer to me at least is a simple one: I’m marking time.

I recently read quite an interesting post at http://adactio.com/journal/1202/ about the subject of lifestreams where the author makes that a bit more clear:

Every time I ping , the message is time stamped. Every time I post a link to , that’s time stamped. Every time I upload a picture to Flickr, a time stamp of when the picture was taken is also sent. Whenever I listen to a song on iTunes, the track information is sent to Last.fm with a time stamp. And of course whenever I , be it here, at the DOM Scripting or Principia Gastronomica, each entry has a permalink and a time stamp.Just about every time somebody publishes something on the Web, it gets time stamped. Wouldn’t it be nice to pull in all these disparate bits of time stamped information and build up a timeline of online activity?

The technology is already in place. Most of the services I mention above have APIs. In this case, a fully-blown API isn’t even necessary. Each service already offers an easily parsable XML file of activity ordered by time: RSS.

Over the course of any particular day, I could be updating five or six RSS feeds, depending on how much I’m blogging, how many I’m posting, or how much music I’m listening to. I’d like to take those individual feeds and mush ‘em all up together.

Using the feedwordpress plugin this is almost too easy. Things I’ll add to this: Flickr, , and other stuff…
This is where you (my imagined audience) come in. Give me some feedback about other services i can mash into this.
I know, you really don’t care about the inane things i do while at the pc, but me.

Add to any service

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