Funds from the Amazon founder and Spark Capital will help the "stressing" microblogging outfit rebuild its technologyWhen the news broke on June 24 that microblogging sensation Twitter picked up new venture investors, including Amazon (AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos, the company—as luck would have it—was suffering a service outage. "Twitter is stressing out a bit right now, so this feature is temporarily disabled," read the message.
Trouble is, that message and others like it have become all too common on Twitter. The site, a tool that lets some one million people exchange brief 140-character messages, seems to be as unreliable as it is popular. In fact, it's the surging traffic, in part, that leads to failures.
Noises About Forsaking Twitter
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