Towards Twitter Reliability

Twitter service is sometimes interrupted because we're working on it. We're concentrating our efforts on creating a reliable, global communication utility that can be depended on 99.99% of the time. Our team made a significant achievement last night but but it's important to note that our goal will not be achieved in just one night.

Reliability will be achieved by sustained effort and strategic decisions like hiring Lee and building out our technical team which is currently just four brilliant programmers and two awesome operations folks. The all-nighter Twitter pulled last night was part of a major project to get us closer to our goal.

We'll be able to share more of the specifics of our latest infrastructure project when we've successfully completed it and can write about it with some perspective.

We don't get into deep, technical specifics on our main blog mostly because I'm the one who usually updates it and I'm not really that deep or technical. For more technical discussions we hope people will visit our developers group and developer blog.

Copy, Paste, Share

ControlC is a brilliant new service. Every time you copy some text, link, etc to your local clipboard it gets saved on this site and you can share it with others. That's a damn good idea.

Xanga Tattoo

This Xanga user has tattooed the Xanga logo on her hand. I can honestly say that when I designed that logo, I had not envisioned that particular use case. Wow.

First!

crunchies: biz stone and jack dorsey
Originally uploaded by emilychang

Jack and I went on stage at the first-ever Crunchies event and accepted the first award of the night on behalf of Twitter for Best Mobile Startup.

Try Our New Facebook Application

Are you on Facebook? Try this application: Trazzler. I helped make it.

My friend Adam and I came up with this idea for an armchair travel app and decided to try it out on Facebook first. We thought since people liked sending virtual gifts they might like virtual trips.

Trazzler is a quiz that guesses your travel personality and then sends you on a different adventure each week. My personality is "Do-Gooder" so right now I'm "Teaching children how to read in villages near Antigua, Guatemala."

What about you?

Like Snow?

South Lake Tahoe Ski Resorts - Truckee hotels, vacation rentals, restaurants and activities - 71Miles: "The huge storms drenching the Bay Area this weekend are dumping over ten feet of feather-light snow on the Sierra Crest. Finally the resorts have the base coverage they need to stay open into the spring. Here’s a primer to help you differentiate the South Lake Tahoe resorts; if you prefer the woodsy North Shore, check out our North Lake Tahoe ski guide."

Cute Little Baby Jackrabbit

Little Jackrabbit
Originally uploaded by bizstone

Check out this baby Jackrabbit that Livy is rehabilitating. Once it gets all big and healthy Livy will re-introduce it into the wild. For now, this little guy and his sister are living downstairs in our foster-care ward.