Social network development and social networking website development arenas have grown out of bounds with many websites and portals coming up with interactive and unique features that cater to even niche interest areas of users.
Largely popular in this arena is Twitter, a novel initiative in the field of Social network development which has redefined the networking aspect with the introduction of a new buzzword: microblogging. Though the response to twitter has been nothing short of me astonishing with a record number of user accounts being created everyday, the social networking giant is not immune to website traffic issues. There are many stoic examples in the past where Twitter has perennially faced traffic issues with users being unable to access their home pages or being unable to tweet. The error page with the Twitter whale seems to be the most accessible page sometimes, say some frustrated users. Twitter too, has accepted the issues plaguing its much availed service on its blog and has gone public saying that the frequency has risen alarmingly in the recent past. With an average of around 300,000 new accounts on any day, the pressure on the servers hosting Twitter’s service is immense and they are bound to collapse. Twitter has promised to rectify the issues at the earliest and there are talks of them setting up a dedicated data center that would cater to these issues quickly and more efficiently.
But pay heed to experts and they opine that Twitter’s solution is not the answer to this increasing social networking development rage. Without additional infrastructure to bolster their extremely popular services and without integrating state-of-the-art cloud services, Twitter and its user’s woes are bound to continue. Without proper BCP plans and redundant networks to fall back upon in case of unavailability of primary, these issues will not find an automatic solution. The issue will not cause much of a problem until a competitor devises a similar idea and then things could turn ugly for the microblogging giant. The Social network development segment is so dynamic that every second there’s a new idea being conceived to bring people around the world together.
Twitter needs to pull up its socks if it wishes to cement its position at the top of the social networking ladder.
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That’s good stuff! You guys should nominate yourself for Developers Source award, or Development Resource, or something along the line… I don’t recall now; I’ve met their Chief Executive last week at the Hyatt resort in Vienna. They will be announcing their winners in a month or so, and you definitely deserve some love. lol
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