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Twitter hasn't had any serious downtime for months.

• old-gregg 17y ago
  Actually it is very simple: adding Twitter to the mix adds one more "moving part". Shooting a simple email and then multiplexing it (via aliasing, for instance) to X recipients is easier and more reliable. Create an address like my-startup-site-is-down@gmail.com and forward to X other destinations from there (including Twitter if you want), and send your notifications to that address using standard 20+ year old protocols and tools, instead of some 3rd party proprietary stuff which was "released often, released early" and hasn't crashed "in months"
  • kubrick 17y ago
    It's slightly more nuanced than you're making it sound. For one thing, Twitter may very well be more reliable than your email system (YMMV). For another, email doesn't generally beep loudly and alert you. The idea that an additional part automatically weakens a system is reductive. It doesn't necessarily weaken it at all.
• apgwoz 17y ago
  I've seen the fail whale 2 times today. Refreshing worked, but the problems there aren't entirely solved.
• mr_justin 17y ago
  Serious downtime and downtime are not the same, and if twitter is down for a few minutes that means a few minutes of not receiving an SMS because you're routing your services through them.