01.15.08
Ted Stevens predicted Twitter downage
After Twitter’s falling apart during Mac World Expo, I though about Ted Stevens.
Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got… an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday, I got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially. They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes.
It seems Twitter had trouble scaling those tubes.