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Twitter searches for the next step | Technology | The Guardian

Submitted by Infodiva

Jul 24, 2008

Summary

On his Blogger.com profile page, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams describes himself as "a farm boy from Nebraska, who's been very lucky in business and life". That luck seemed to be running out in recent months, when Twitter - the microblogging and messaging service created by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Williams himself - struggled to cope with massive growth.

Instead of their Tweets, users were frequently seeing the "fail whale": a cute cartoon whale being lifted into the sky by a flock of birds. It was Twitter's way of saying: "Sorry, we're suffering a bit of downtime." But it became an emblem of the site's inability to cope.

Things are better now. The outages are fewer and further between than they were. And the company has just acquired Summize, the third-party startup that created a better Twitter search. Read the full article

Comments (2)

Kendra,

Jul 24, 2008

I've been using Twitter for about 9 months. My first use was to build a college-age fan base for an Internet celebrity. More recently I've been tweeting about an amazing young Rapper--who is really going to be a cross-over star. His work is fabulous.

I've been approached about business and introduced to business opportunities. I think Twitter has dozens of applications and I'm eager to discover them all