i’m not the sort of person who normally posts about these things bc i don’t really give an eff…
but. really? really? you guys at twitter still haven’t figured out that you need like 70 million servers to accommodate for real-time-comms-heavy events like the super bowl or haiti or whatever, and that maybe you should invest some of the hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars you have laying around in your fancy SF coffers into, you know, having a reasonably sound infrastructure that doesn’t totally explode whenever some shared cultural experience happens (i.e. at least once a week) and people wanna tweet about it en masse? shouldn’t that — reliable service to your users — be your #1 concern as a business, instead of, oh i dunno, figuring out a way to make sure i can sleep easy knowing that khloe kardashian’s twitter account is, in fact, verified? just make the damn thing work!
i am very tempted to go on a rant about how some tech people are bad at running businesses because they are like smug IT guys who get annoyed when laymen coworkers ask them for basic help (“my computer won’t print!”) because they (the IT guys) have some giant chips on their shoulders as a result of not getting laid…. but i won’t.
