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Twitter's existential crisis a masterwork of fingerpointing

Twitter's founders are waging a behind-the-scenes war with Blaine Cook, the blogging service's former chief architect. The subject: Who's responsible for the service's perpetual outages. TechCrunch's Michael Arrington ran a series of leading questions about Twitter's infrastructure, attributing them to "people who say they’ve seen Twitter’s architecture." I don't think that's true, if only because I received a similar set of questions, before Arrington's post went up, from a source who identified himself as a "friend of Blaine." In their official response, Twitter cofounders Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone — they're the two one always forgets about, because they're not as interesting as Evan Williams — go out of their way to avoid naming names. More »

12:00 PM on Mon Jun 2 2008
By Owen Thomas
920 views, 2 comments

Latest by n/a: This does seem to be a great opportunity to settle the endless debate about Ruby on Rails and scalability. I hope people with direct technical experience with RoR will comment here, since I'm interested in RoR but afraid of ending more »

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Ariel Waldman, Twitter, and the "whore" algorithm

Don't call Ariel Waldman a "whore" where Google can hear you. That's the only firm conclusion we can draw from a confusing fracas that left even Twitter cofounder Biz Stone unsure who can call whom a whore on the service. Waldman, a blogger and community manager at quasi-rival messaging site Pownce, called out Twitter for allegedly failing to uphold its own terms of service, setting off an online firestorm. More »

1:00 PM on Fri May 23 2008
By Melissa Gira Grant
3,016 views, 22 comments

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Twitter cops to messing up everybody's Stevenote

Twitter nearly downed Valleywag's liveblog of the Steve Jobs keynote yesterday at Macworld. And apparently we weren't the only ones affected. "We seem to be up at the moment, but we had a flood of traffic around the Macworld Keynote this morning," Twitter developer Alex Payne wrote in a Twitter-dedicated Google group yesterday during the speech. More »

11:00 AM on Wed Jan 16 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
361 views, Comment

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Now we know what Twitter's good for: not much

So my boss is at Macworld right now and he's expecting Twitter's Jack Dorsey to take the stage in a matter of minutes. Of course, you should be hearing about this from him in our liveblog of the event. But we used a Twitter embed. And it's broken. And, depending on when you're visiting the 'Wag, it's either not working or loading really slow. Break a leg, Jack!

9:19 AM on Tue Jan 15 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
1,098 views, 5 comments

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Twitter CEO "looking forward to a big week"

Why is Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, "looking forward to a big week"? It could be that Twitter investor Fred Wilson is in town. Always exciting to have a board member around. But more likely, Dorsey is anticipating tomorrow's keynote, where Apple is expected to announce a built-in Twitter app for the iPhone.

12:20 PM on Mon Jan 14 2008
By Owen Thomas
913 views, 2 comments