Twitter down again

Twitter schedules another maintenance downtime. This time around, its an hour at the peak of the day. Critics have been quick to resurface the concerns that the Twitter infrastructure is simply not up to task. The downtime today is another one in the long time of small but disruptive downtime for Twitter. The Twitter maintenance is scheduled for noon Pacific, 13 May and is expected to last an hour.

The server maintenance has followed hours of slow performance on the Twitter site, with Tweets taking much longer than normal to display and some users experiencing problems just logging in. The sluggish performance has caused users to flood blogs and forums with questions asking why Twitter is having so many problems.

One angry blogger wrote:

"What is it with Twitter? They wanted all this promotion and hype, and yet when push comes to shove, they can't handle it"

Experts have thrown caution to the wind, by warning that any site would have trouble keeping up with the amount of traffic that Twitter receives on a daily basis. With the influx of celebrities joining the service, people have been keen to take a look at what Twitter has to offer. Some have compared the site with its main competitor, Facebook.

Critics have pointed out that Facebook never had as many problems as Twitter are currently experiencing. So, is it a deeper problem that Twitter are unable to face up to? Is it their service which is suffering from poor coding and a dysfunctional architecture? Know one really knows, but many hope that the service stays up and running because it is the freshest and most talked about site on the web.

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