Question (marginally related): Why does Twitter have such a great reputation, technology wise?
Here they are getting featured by Apple, and yet I have never seen a company with a product so widely used that is also so ridden with technology issues (I know, their tech issues have nothing to do with using Apple products).
I just wonder why they get a free pass from the tech community, while it's breaking world news when there's a 15 minute glitch in any of Google's services.
I don't mean this in a disrespectful way toward Twitter (or Apple), but it really strikes me as odd.
Admittedly, I'm also feeling somewhat bitter at Twitter at the moment, since I can't change my Twitter picture right now on a feed I'm setting up for my employer, because, and I quote, "Twitter is stressed out."
Apparently you've been in a coma for the last 6 months as Twitter's problems were essentially all that TC and the related tech blog scene wrote about all winter long.
If Twitter is getting a 'pass', I don't want to know what a 'hard time' looks like from Arrington and the crew.
A hard time would have been to ignore Twitter completely.
Instead, they bombarded people with articles trumpeting the service, but showing the problems. The publicity was good, even though it was talking about downtime, it introduced people to twitter.
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Question (marginally related): Why does Twitter have such a great reputation, technology wise?
Here they are getting featured by Apple, and yet I have never seen a company with a product so widely used that is also so ridden with technology issues (I know, their tech issues have nothing to do with using Apple products).
I just wonder why they get a free pass from the tech community, while it's breaking world news when there's a 15 minute glitch in any of Google's services.
I don't mean this in a disrespectful way toward Twitter (or Apple), but it really strikes me as odd.
Admittedly, I'm also feeling somewhat bitter at Twitter at the moment, since I can't change my Twitter picture right now on a feed I'm setting up for my employer, because, and I quote, "Twitter is stressed out."
Apparently you've been in a coma for the last 6 months as Twitter's problems were essentially all that TC and the related tech blog scene wrote about all winter long.
If Twitter is getting a 'pass', I don't want to know what a 'hard time' looks like from Arrington and the crew.
A hard time would have been to ignore Twitter completely.
Instead, they bombarded people with articles trumpeting the service, but showing the problems. The publicity was good, even though it was talking about downtime, it introduced people to twitter.
Google is much larger than Twitter.
And twitter's reputation is for product design, not on technology.