Great post by TK Kirchner over on Blorge regarding Twitter shooting itself in the foot by limiting API requests.
Rather than rehash it, I’m posting the first paragraph here and you can click over to Blorge to read the rest.
Twitter has been trying to stay afloat in the mist of overwhelming traffic for quite some time now. They’ve disabled features, like reply tabs and instant messages, and even tried to reduce authenticated API requests, from unlimited to 70 to 20 and back up to 100. Now, they’re placing a limit on unauthenticated API requests, moving it down to 100 requests per hour per IP address. Developers are already complaining that such move is going to cause serious problems for their businesses and, in effect, cause problems for Twitter.
Good morning Twitter campers - a fairly hefty roundup this morning as lots of news and views coming in by email as well as on our twitter radar!
- Twitter Status keeps us updated on the ..ummm… status of Twitter - good if you’re intersted in stats and figures - and pretty little graphs
Like many people that hear of Twitter, at first Andrew thought of it as a waste of time, and wondered what all the fuss was about.
But, give him his due, he signed up and gave it a go, wanting to (in his words) ‘walk the talk’.
His blog today shows that 6 months on, he’s certainly glad he did!
He says:
Fab collection service that scans people’s Tweets and then pulls them together to find out which URLs are being talked about the most on twitter.
Absolutely great for finding out industry trends and current thoughts.
As of today (19th June) big news is Stewart Butterfield’s yahoo resignation letter, which has been doing the Twitter rounds.
http://twitturly.com/
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According to this, traffic to Twitter nearly doubled between Februdary and April 2008.
An interesting article from compete blog looks more indepth at Twitter and it’s reach.
They say:
- Twitter users are 10% more likely to be male than the average internet user. This skew is nearly identical across all three Usage groups.
- Twitter skews heavily towards the college/twenty-something crowd. Twitter attracts 18-24 year-olds at nearly twice the rate of an average U.S website.
Twitter has been trying to stay afloat in the mist of overwhelming traffic for quite some time now. They’ve disabled features, like reply tabs and instant messages, and even tried to reduce authenticated API requests, from unlimited to 70 to 20 and back up to 100. Now, they’re placing a limit on unauthenticated API requests, moving it down to 100 requests per hour per IP address. Developers are already complaining that such move is going to cause serious problems for their businesses and, in effect, cause problems for Twitter.
