This morning, at a little past 5 a.m. Eastern Time, Web 2.0 lifestreaming application FriendFeed saw a major outage. Touted as a Twitter replacement, Internet personalities like Robert Scoble and Louis Gray have hailed the application as the one to watch in this space.
Founded by ex-Googlers, FriendFeed has managed a fairly consistent uptime record so far. Within minutes, a Twitter search verified the FriendFeed outage, with many tweets drawing comparisons with the Twitter "failwhale." It's an ironic turn for the company, as FriendFeed gained some of its early popularity during frequent Twitter outages.
Update: FriendFeed is at least partially back up as of 7:20 a.m. Eastern. Some users are reporting that search is still not working, however.
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wow, you're fast.
LOL Marcel. Sometimes, insomnia pays off. Well, that and Skitch. When I wake up, my usual routine is checking email, checking Twitter, checking FriendFeed while I wait for my news items to come into my reader. Three refreshes in a row let me to check Summize (which I'm calling it until Twitter actually integrates instead of just rebranding). Interestingly enough, several people seem to be paying more attention to Social|Median this morning as a result. What would be even more ironic would be for Social|Median to take over some of FriendFeed's biggest fans as a result of the outage.
I'm sorry Cyndy, but this isn't news. This is just...a horrible, horrible comparison.
Because it goes out ONCE at a very opportune time (low volume of us at 5:00 EST/2:00 PST) for a short period of time is not Twittereseque. EVERYBODY goes down, even Facebook. Twittereseque means consistent failure over a long period of time.
This article's just not up to the usual standard of the standard. Sorry, if I'm being harsh, but I felt I had to be this time.
- Ben
And thne I realize this was August, not October. Damn you FriendFeed.
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