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Joel Spolsky made a similar point in one of the stack overflow podcasts. He and Jeff were talking about twitter's downtime and Joel said something along the li
by chollida1 15y ago
Joel Spolsky made a similar point in one of the stack overflow podcasts.
He and Jeff were talking about twitter's downtime and Joel said something along the lines of "and look at how all those other startups destroyed twitter by having more up time."
The point being is that twitter just went ahead and shipped. They were able to fix their software issues after they found out what their product actually was.
- absconditus 15y agoPerhaps people also have low expectations for software.
- chollida1 15y ago> Perhaps people also have low expectations for software. Maybe, but I don't think that has anything to do with the point that people could have easily migrated to other clones but stayed with twitter as it was the best platform, performance woes aside.
- angryasian 15y agoi would like to think of twitter as the exception, with all the press, investor hype and celebrities it was hard for it to fail. I highly doubt that many startups could handle that kind of downtime and still be successful