Down is the New Up: Amazon Goes Down Along With Twitter
Twitter going down pretty much the norm, but big ol’ Amazon.com featured an hour and half of downtime today, probably costing them something close to $3 million of revenue.
There is some speculation that the new 60GB Playstation 3 bundle, which sold out on Costco.com BEFORE the time Costco stated it would begin selling the much-desired PS3, was the cause of the failure on Amazon, but that’s just speculation. It does make sense, though considering the short supply of the bundle and the frantic refreshing undoubtedly being done by Playstation-crazy gamers.
Amazon likely made up most of their revenue after the site came back up. But it reveals how tenuous and precious server functionality is, and if anybody should know how to keep their site up, it’s Amazon..
Twitter being down is no longer news. Rather, it is news when Twitter is actually up. Right now, after about thirty seconds of waiting Twitter.com is up! I used the opportunity to tweet about my shock about Twitter actually working. Michael Arrington of Techcrunch is calling for Twitter to rehire Blaine Cook, their old Chief Architect. Evidence suggests that when Blaine left, or when he was still there but on vacation, Twitter had big-time problems. At least Cook must feel some vindication, as he was the man many were pointing to as the source of Twitter’s issues.
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