Picture This: FriendFeed sees its first Twitteresque failure

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:40:28 -0400

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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Picture This: FriendFeed sees its first Twitteresque failure

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:40:28 -0400

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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Picture This: FriendFeed sees its first Twitteresque failure

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:40:28 -0400

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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Picture This: FriendFeed sees its first Twitteresque failure

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:40:28 -0400

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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