Twitter is Measuring its Improvements
Posted by Qrystal on July 8, 2008 at 18:53.
Category: Miscellany. Tags: twitter.
I am really pleased with the efforts of the twitter staff in providing their users with constant updates — not to mention, the improved service! Here’s an abbreviated version of a recent post on their twitterstatus tumblog, entitled “Measurable Improvements”:
…[Twitter] page response times have significantly improved in the last week, as you can see from this chart:
(Here’s a live version from Pingom, so you can check on us any time.)
What’s more, sightings of the famous “Fail Whale” [link] have gone down precipitously[:] …
[W]hile you had approximately a 1-in-29 chance of hitting a whale nine days ago [June 29th, 2008], you only had a 1-in-2000 chance yesterday [July 7th, 2008]. And this is with Twitter handling significantly more traffic and updates[!!!]
This isn’t good enough, of course. There’s still tons to do. But we have a plan and are encouraged by this improvement. As always, we appreciate your patience as we work through these kinks in our system.
-@ev
Thanks, @ev, we appreciate that you and your team are working through the kinks, and (on a completely unrelated note) I personally appreciate that you let your keys have their own twitter account. That’s just too cool!