Twitter’s Growing Pains

By | Published June 15, 2010

Snapshot taken on June 15th 2010, 12:00pm

I was just reading Robert Scoble’s blog, “Is it time to reconsider Google Buzz vs Facebook or Twitter?” and he got a valid point there comparing Google’s Buzz to Twitter and Facebook. Lately, I felt that Twitter can’t cope with its growth and is down more often than you could count, sometimes for a few minutes, and sometimes for hours. The current downtime (or over capacity) I suppose is due to the Worldcup, but this is not an excuse as Twitter should have foreseen this and scale their system to accommodate those spikes.

I think Twitter is the best thing that has comes along since Slice Bread (maybe not) , but seriously in order to move on, they have to scale up and cope with the demand or they will slowly be loosing steam to alternatives like Buzz.

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Is Facebook getting too Paranoid?

By | Published July 2, 2009

Dear facebook,

Are you getting too paranoid? I appreciate your seriousness on getting the worms and the phishing attack recently but your system should be able to determine what is a bot and what is a human.

I was having a conversation with my friend last night and we were discussing on photography, so I started to send him links of my flickr pages over the conversation and next thing I know pop out a message warning me of spamming him and threaten that my account will be disable (See below image)

Facebook_John_Teh

So I visited your FAQ page and did exactly as recommended by changing my password, logout and login back again. As I continue on my chat with him, every line I type, I am warned again by that message. What is going on facebook? Are you overly paranoid?

Btw, I’m a human not a bot

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