Twitter ’s persistent and disruptive help outages entered a second week , as the company scrambles to bring its site availability back to acceptable levels .
After multiple incidents bring Twitter.com and its chopine for third - company applications down several timeslast week , the company said on Friday that it had place the suit and had taken concrete steps to adjudicate the job .
Specifically , Twitter find fault computer error in preparation , supervise and configure its intragroup connection , andsaidthat in response it had doubled the mental ability of its interior connection , sharpen its monitoring and improved its load balancing ,
“ By bringing the monitoring of our internal web in line with the rest of the organization at Twitter , we ’ll be able to grow our capacity well ahead of user growth . Furthermore , by doubling our internal web electrical capacity and rebalancing load across the internal web , we ’re better prepared to service today ’s tweets and beyond , ” wrote Jean - Paul Cozzatti from Twitter ’s engineering squad on the company ’s official web log .
However , problem continued throughout the weekend and into Monday aurora , as acknowledged on the officialTwitter Status web log , as the site returns its notorious “ fail giant ” mistake content .
Not even at its halfway stop yet , June is already the unsound month in price of downtime for Twitter since October of last year , grant to World Wide Web performance monitoring companyPingdom . So far this month , Twitter has been down for 3 hours and 3 minutes .
Twitter , launched in March 2006 , had frequent and drawn-out outage in 2007 and the first half of 2008 , but then steadily improved its internet site uptime by beef up and revamping its systems . In 2009 , it had very solid months but also uncollectible ones , like August , when it was down for more than 6 time of day , agree to Pingdom .
“ If you look at the type of outages out there , they seem to be mostly related to relatively new or fast - develop services . Often degraded changes are surd to manage , especially by little , Modern inauguration teams that have not yet built lots of operating discipline and maturity date , ” said IDC psychoanalyst Al Hilwa .
Such divine service often face design of use they do n’t fully understand and work load peaks of nameless orbit for which they do n’t have limit response plan , he said via einsteinium - mail . “ This is a also a by - merchandise of new architectures often used as the back - ending of the swarm services supporting these case of new societal internet or Web site , ” Hilwa said .
The predominant architectures to handle such scale require factoring the workload on many engines and having them join forces as a deal out system . In the long run such architecture will mature , but for now hustler are distinctly challenge to provide the right spirit level of robustness , he enunciate .
“ at last , the main way to achieve higher level of availability involve spending money on redundant engines , which of course take up the costs and is especially challenging for start - up ventures or high - growth businesses , some of which are still trying to figure out what the revenue fashion model will calculate like , ” he say .
This year , Twitter ’s big month had been January with 89 minutes of downtime , but things have taken a turn for the worst in June . The difference now is that Twitter launched in April its Promoted Tweets advertising program , a keystone to its revenue - generating strategy .
Having repeat outages ca n’t assist Twitter ’s attempt to lure big - name embodied marketers . These companies will carry a sure level of system stability when institutionalize to spending on an advertising military campaign , especially when Promoted tweet advertizement will be yield and posted in the same way and with the same data format as steady Twitter military post .
Twitter establish Promoted Tweetswitha special act of spouse like Starbucks and Best Buy . Twitter has n’t responded to a postulation seeking an update on the status of the syllabus .
Twitter has been arise dramatically in the preceding two years , becoming the preferred creature for individuals to provide updates on their personal lives and for ship’s company and public figures to encourage themselves , their brands and products . Users put up about 2 million messages on Twitter in May , according to Pingdom .
Twitter has also been very democratic with outside developers , who have create more than 50,000 Twitter applications .
