[Noisebridge-discuss] DEAD AIR

[G.]

  Tweetdeck occasionally eats my tweets -- but probably not because of
Twitter. There are no limits to how a desktop application can fail, heh. In
the end, these are just tweets.

~Griffin

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:45 PM, John Adams <jna at retina.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 11:34 AM, rachel lyra hospodar <rachelyra at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Maybe he means how it's always been a buggy web service that occasionally
>> sloughs info. It's actually gotten a lot better in that regard over the
>> last year or two. Their recent whispersys acquisition points to some
>> interest in their part on protecting people's info.
>>
> As a member of both the early Twitter operations team and Twitter security
> team I feel like I have to set the record straight here. It's offensive to
> me to have anyone write off four years of my and other teams work as 'a
> buggy service that occasionally sloughs info'.  We process many thousands
> of messags second, with ample capacity to handle major world events such as
> the London riots and sporting events.
>
> We've worked extremely hard in the face of a ridiculous level of growth
> (from 250k users to > 100 M active users in under four years) and maintain
> thousands of servers, a far cry from when we strugged with the onslaught of
> requests to a new and emerging service.
>
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