Twitter admits it has had its worst month since last October for downtime but promises it will do its best to stay up and running for World Cup games. The micro-blog monster explained in a blog post that tweaking its system to fix problems created by a planned upgrade had uncovered deeper problems. It is working on long-term …

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Wednesday 16th June 2010 12:05 GMT Anonymous Coward

Whats the point...

... it's not like any of those traffic spikes actually produce anything interesting.

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Wednesday 16th June 2010 12:05 GMT mfraz

ITV?

Any chance we could have the same promise from ITV's HD channel?

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Wednesday 16th June 2010 12:05 GMT Anonymous Coward

Since LAST OCTOBER?

Oh, my.

Never mind "within living memory", or "since records began". A whole EIGHT opportunities to do worse missed.

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Wednesday 16th June 2010 12:56 GMT Anonymous John

Anyone taking bets on this?

If so, are any Twitter employees reading this?

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Wednesday 16th June 2010 12:58 GMT TeeCee

"brainfart-sharing network"

Quality. Sheer quality.

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Wednesday 16th June 2010 19:30 GMT Gianni Straniero

Why, Lord, why?

I don't understand why there is a spike in traffic during games. Well, I do, but I don't get the point. Every idiot in the world saying "Wow! Spain 0 - 1 Switzerland!!!" seems completely pointless. Any of your "followers" who gives a shit will already know.

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Thursday 17th June 2010 08:45 GMT Anonymous Coward

are you serious?

It's a damn webf front-end to a bunch of mailing lists. Hell, if you were masochistic, you could recreate twitter using MS Exchange Server (but your messages could be longer)

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