Posts Tagged ‘downtime’

If Google Wants to Make an Extra Billion Dollars Tomorrow…

by Zach Epstein on August 11th, 2008 at 7:06pm
Filed under: Opinions, Services 48 Comments

…It should start charging $1 per month for Gmail service. Twitter users probably represent one zillionth of the Gmail user base (yes, that is an exaggeration) and here is the Twitter reaction when Gmail went down for less than 30…

fav.or.it Founder Fires at Twitter and the Blogosphere, Fixes Twitter for Free

by Zach Epstein on May 27th, 2008 at 3:28pm
Filed under: Networks, Services 4 Comments

Call it a modern anomaly, herd mentality or whatever else you want but Twitter seems to continue to grow in popularity as its downtime issues get more pronounced. Amidst recent news of a successful funding round, Twitter’s problems keep getting…