At this point I'm offering $100 a year for a premium account on Twitter. By premium I mean a dedicated server that is independent of the free cluster of servers, and that has an SLA of 99.99999% or something to that effect. Also, I'd pay for more features and better speed.
Ev/Biz: If you get this please consider putting up a server for your top users that are willing to pay $100 a year. When you get 100 to 500 of these $100 users why not pull the trigger? Then we can get to the service when the kitty cat is working on the free ones. :-)
Seriously, I'm in your corner... but the down time is really impacting my ability to get my job done!
[ Note: Twitter is a mobile/simple blogging service that I use in addition to my blog at www.calacanis.com. You can see my latest blog in the orange box to the right on this blog. ]
I would pay for Twitter.com
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(Page 1 of 1)2. Did you really think he could stay away for over 2 months? ;-)
Posted at 2:09PM on May 14th 2007 by Scott Johnson
3. "... but the down time is really impacting my ability to get my job done!"
I'm going through this statement over and over in my mind...but it does not compute. Is this some sort of secret code? Are you taking liberties with the word "job"?
;)
Posted at 2:26PM on May 14th 2007 by ROIpositive
4. Totally agree. Especially the SMS gateway, which is up for a day then down or a week. It's really, really harming my ability to keep up with stuff locally.
Posted at 4:03PM on May 14th 2007 by Jeremy Wright
5. It's a pity that someone's already squatting "calachat.com" otherwise I'd say, lets create a Twitter knock-off for Jason. :-)
Posted at 4:16PM on May 14th 2007 by Dossy Shiobara
6. I think you should post what premium features you'd want. I have an idea of what I'd like (search, more filtering,groups, etc.)
Posted at 6:09PM on May 14th 2007 by Brian Breslin
8. "... but the down time is really impacting my ability to get my job done!"
What do you use twitter for that you can't put in your blog? I don't get it.
Posted at 5:18PM on May 15th 2007 by Mark Wilson
9. i agree, not sure about productivity since twitter seems to be killing mine, but i have become quite fond i.e. dependent on the service and this touch and go crisis which is only seemingly getting worse needs to get rectified.
I'm sure people are still very patient but any more prolonged outages will start causing some defections.
Posted at 1:54PM on May 16th 2007 by Sean Scott
10. I still don't get it. I mean what value does Twitter add. I can see the usefulness for events and such but on a personal level do you really need to get a txt walking down the street telling you that Scobble is reading something or on a flight to somewhere?
on a totally unrelated note i own twitterblogging.com that i'm not using .. want it?
11. Twitter is a productivity tool for me and has become the most important new tool in my kit. It has created possibilities that had not existed for me before. I have become dependent upon it's service so imagine my surprise when I could not *still can't* access my homepage at twitter today.
In another post at my blog, http://taoofjoe.com/2007/05/16/twitter-is-broken/, I argue that we should expect 99.99999% uptime for *free*.
That is if Twitter is serious.
I wouldn't pay for Premium until free was dependable. Google did it.
1. Yo, it's not 7-14-7, yet. :-P
Posted at 2:02PM on May 14th 2007 by Dossy Shiobara