Twitter Significantly Reduces Downtime Since July 2008

While Twitter was king when it comes to downtime among social networks in 2008, it has gradually improved. 84% of Twitter’s downtime happened during the first half of 2008 while its availability has improved significantly in the second half of 08. Pingdom has a PDF report on social network downtime and it answers some good questions about why availability is crucial to a social site’s growth, especially for a real-time service like Twitter.

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