I Hate Twitter

I must be old, becuase I hate twitter. I hate the fact that you only get a limited number of characters.  I hate the fact that people put such mundane aspects of their life on it. I hate that so many people using it have no idea why they are doing so!

One of out servers is hosted at RackSpace, and last week it went down for a little while. I tried to phone, and that wasn't working either. So I went to twitter and there was already 3 or 4 people commenting on the fact that their servers were down. This is the IT equivalent of, during a power cut, sticking your head out of the front door to see whether it's just your house or the whole street. It turns out that it was the whole street.

I admit that I am a fan of Racksace. Generally their response times are incredible (fanatical even!) and while our server was down for a few minutes, it came up pretty soon. I know that we pay handsomly for this, however for this application it is worth it. I'd say it was almost as fast as I could have worked out that something was wrong and walked into my server room to see what the problem was.

Out of interest, I went back to twitter, and there they were. 10 or 12 people already moaning about the failure of their rackspace web server. I hate twitter.