Mile High Soapbox

Twitter Down

Well Twitter is down tonight for four hours. 

For me, a web application should not be down like this.  They should have redundant systems and load balancing so if they need to take some servers down to work on them, they can just shift the load.

I just started using Twitter, and have not experienced this.  But in researching whether I should use Twitter, Tumblr, or Pownce I have noticed a lot of users complaining about how much Twitter is down.

If the Twitter folks want this application to continue on-top, then they need to fix this problem.