Does the World Still Need Twitter?

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Twitter users know that the service goes down fairly often, but that doesn't seem to alienate them. While Twitter has certainly had its issues with user retention in the past, it continues to grow. Last month, the sitegrew by nearly 10% (over the previous month) by our estimates, with total registered users estimated at 122 million. That's not Facebook-like numbers, but it's pretty significant. One almost has to wonder if those numbers would be higher if the "Fail Whale" didn't make so many appearances. Twitter users, for the most part, don't seem to mind him too much though. 

The Downtime

Frequent downtime is nothing new for Twitter. It's been going on pretty much as long as Twitter's been around. You would think that by now, they'd have it under control, but no such luck. 

The latest post on the Twitter status blog from just today says, "We're currently experiencing a high rate of errors (whales) on Twitter.com. Our infrastructure and operations engineers are responding to the incident. One from Monday night talks about site availability issues. This is a pretty common theme on the blog. June 9th..."site availability issues". June 8th...site availability issues...May 5th..."site largely unavailable. April 22nd..."elevated errors." April 20th..."high error rate." April 12th...."high error rate." April 5th..."general site outage." March 25th..."high error rate." You get the idea. This is all scattered among posts about missing tweets, missing follower counts, and other issues. And I'm pretty sure there has not been a corresponding update every time I've personally seen the Fail Whale. 

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Will Google Buzz Find Mainstream Appeal?

Google Making Moves to Make Buzz More Useful

Google is starting to make some significant moves that may give Google Buzz a significant boost. For example, this week, a "Reshare" button was announced. This is essentially Google's version of the retweet. If you follow a Buzz user who posts an interesting update, you can hit the "reshare" button (down with the comment, like, and email buttons) to repost that post to your own Buzz stream. 

Reshare only works for public posts. Private posts will not have the reshare link. However, you can reshare posts yourself publicly or privately. If a lot of people you follow reshare the same post, the similar posts will be collapsed. 

"You'll notice that resharing creates a new post, effectively forking the conversation. To fork or not fork was a decision we debated for a while," says Buzz software engineer Sam Goto. "Ultimately, we think forked conversations help create more varied, intimate discussions around a single item. We realize people may want a non-forking version too, so we're thinking about how to do that as well."

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Google Wave Turns One

Exactly one year ago today, a product that was supposed to represent a new and innovative means of communication debuted at Google I/O.  Now, Google's celebrating Wave's first birthday by trying to convince a few more people to give the tech a chance.

That observation isn't necessarily meant to slight Google Wave or the team behind it; almost any time a company chooses to commemorate something, one purpose must be to attract new users (and/or reengage old ones).  It's just that an official blog post concerning Wave's birthday focused more on promoting it than distributing stickers or some other nonsense.

Anna-Christina Douglas, a product marketing manager at Google, appealed to ordinary individuals by writing, "[T]he ways I use Wave aren't revolutionary or groundbreaking - I communicate about everyday things, but it is these incredibly ordinary and important communications that are transformed in unexpected ways when you use Wave."

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Apple iPad Tops 2 Million In Sales

Apple said Monday iPad sales have surpassed two million in less than 60 days since its launch on April 3.

Apple began shipping iPad in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK this past Friday. iPad is set to launch in nine more countries in July and additional countries later this year.

"Customers around the world are experiencing the magic of iPad, and seem to be loving it as much as we do," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. 

"We appreciate their patience, and are working hard to build enough iPads for everyone."

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