World Cup Twitter traffic has been causing the site a whole heap of trouble. If you’ve been frustrated while trying to post witty quips about North Korea or have noticed your number of tweets suddenly take a tumble, Twitter has headed to its official blog to explain why. Read on for the background behind the World Cup Twitter problems and its promise that the service won’t miss any matches…
While getting a little football appended to every tweet tagged with #worldcup is fun, Twitter users have been grinding their teeth too with the service falling over more often than an Italian striker. In its blog post, Twitter says June has been its worst month since October 2009.
Downtime reporting site Pingdom shows that Twitter has been down for 5 hours and 22 minutes so far during June. The last time it was so unreliable was in August 2009 when it fell over for a total of 6 hours and 56 minutes. It may yet match that record: we’re only half way through the month with plenty more scope for World Cup Twitter frenzies felling the site.
Twitter says: “We are making real time adjustments so that we can grow our capacity and avoid outages during the World Cup.” It’s now planning maintenance over the next two weeks which will put the site out of action but has promised that it won’t do any fiddling during matches: “We will not perform this work during World Cup games and will provide advance notification.”
If you’re worried that your World Cup Twitter words of wisdom won’t make it out into the world, keep your eyes trained on the Twitter Status blog.
Let us know: have you been tweeting during the World Cup? Does it add to the experience or is it as distracting as the drone of the Vuvuzela?
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