谁捣毁Twitter?

六月 13, 2008 – 1:11 am |
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twitter_small从来没有哪个领域像互联网这么变化多端,不只是整个行业 即使一个站点也需要不断修正自己。生活流媒体Twitter就在碰到这样的问题。

Twitter Robot刚恢复没多久,连页面都当即了。Mashable上说,乔布斯一讲话,Twitter就当机,这笔帐又该算到苹果的WWDC大会上了。

关于Twitter因何当机,alleyinsider.com有细分析,不外乎提供了太多API服务,用户增长过快、架构难以支撑。ReadWriteWeb则直接指出,Twitter根本问题在于创立之初并没有想到会成为大众即时信息系统(a messaging system for the masses)。用户把网站朝着自己喜欢的反向使,最终塑造了Twitter的形态,重新定义了它的本质。当然如果Twitter不能及时去调整自己去迎合用户,将被这群尊贵的用户捣毁。

可载舟,亦可覆舟,这是用户的力量!

Twitter如今必须面对这一点。其工程师Alex Payn在blog中说,他们正在重写系统的一个核心部分以令网站应付自如。

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即使如此,如上图所示,Twitter的访问量仍在稳健攀升。ReadWriteWeb对Twitter不能及时与用户沟通这一点十分失望,但用户们并不能找到更好的替换平台(也许plurk.com?)

老美不屑抄袭别人,国内却不然,fanfou.com、jiwai.de、taotao.com,对比一下,凭借QQ强大的矩阵体系吸引用户的taotao.com后起而秀之,再次证明创新在国内实非必要,涨势欺人才是制胜法宝。

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  1. One Response to “谁捣毁Twitter?”

  2. 还看到一个搞笑的说法“Twitter: Don’t blame Ruby, blame Scoble”
    “To which Payne responded:

    The events that hit our system the hardest are generally when “popular” users - that is, users with large numbers of followers and people they’re following - perform a number of actions in rapid succession. This usually results in a number of big queries that pile up in our database(s). Not running scripts to follow thousands of users at a time would be a help, but that’s behavior we have to limit on our side.

    Most users of Twitter will single out one person who this points to: blogger and Fast Company employee Robert Scoble.”

    By Kevin on Jun 13, 2008

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