scobleizer asks will Plurk stay up more than Twitter?

65 responses to this plurk.

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  June 04, 2008 at 07:37 FadedOasis It has so far.
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  June 04, 2008 at 07:38 kcarruthers says might not be hard to do if they have watched & learned about architecture
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  June 04, 2008 at 07:39 tjgillies says maybe if they had servers that didn't suck like twiFAIl
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  June 04, 2008 at 07:39 thunderror says until u gain more followers...
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  June 04, 2008 at 07:39 matthooper they made some infrastructure changes pretty promptly on the weekend so if that response is any indication it bodes well?
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  June 04, 2008 at 07:39 tjgillies says i failed to fail
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  June 04, 2008 at 07:41 the JoshMeister is shocked that it's holding up as well as it has. I've only noticed very minor semi-downtimes so far, but OTOH, Twitter has *way* more users
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  June 04, 2008 at 07:56 jark wants plurk to be reliable and believes it will turn out to be so. or at least i hope so. so, yeah!
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  June 04, 2008 at 07:59 daynah says lets hope so!
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  June 04, 2008 at 08:00 tcw115 says I actually give it 1 chance in 3.
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  June 04, 2008 at 08:40 shaf says Or more to the point how is plurk going to scale ? I'm very interested as to why they use python. Let me think Googleapp uses python too ?!
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  June 04, 2008 at 08:53 creamhackered thinks it's all to do with how many users, twitter is getting hit because it's getting popular. I'd like to see how Plurk scales when it gets hit
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  June 04, 2008 at 08:54 dot.lizard anyone know what platform they're using here? please tell me it's not ruby.
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  June 04, 2008 at 08:54 dot.lizard oh wait n/m. i see the python thing. python = encouraging.
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  June 04, 2008 at 08:55 kcarruthers says we'll see how it scales now scoble has his name back
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  June 04, 2008 at 08:55 shaf says Come on look up twitter's architecture on high scalability.com. It's a kiddies system. Plurk is threading tweets here which is more load
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  June 04, 2008 at 08:56 shaf says I recogn plurk is handing us real well at the moment but will have problems
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  June 04, 2008 at 10:34 dougclinton hehe. all the images on the scalability.com home page are broken. guess it didn't scale.
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  June 04, 2008 at 10:37 shaf thinks dougclinton is way too clever highscalability.com
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  June 04, 2008 at 10:51 creamhackered says haha funny stuff
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  June 04, 2008 at 12:15 sonnygill says the question actually is, is plurk actually more useful than twitter...
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  June 04, 2008 at 12:20 saint_ethique wishes that
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  June 04, 2008 at 12:54 nightsky says well now that plurk is taking some of the traffic from twitter, it should be interesting to see what happens with both services.
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  June 04, 2008 at 13:32 nibbler says if not, now that you're here, they can blame you for outages
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  June 04, 2008 at 21:29 cactus says if you can't, I recommend hari-kari.
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  June 04, 2008 at 21:30 joshdavey says its python vs ruby
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  June 04, 2008 at 21:38 chandowflee thinks that it will be more stable
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  June 04, 2008 at 21:43 UKStevieB wants plurk to be more stable, they seem to be coping with the sudden influx at the moment
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  June 05, 2008 at 02:51 Adheeth feels plurk would perform better than twitter
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  June 05, 2008 at 03:16 polarbear64 thinks only time will tell
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  June 05, 2008 at 03:29 jmh_d_thenar I put my money on Python over Ruby anyday performance- and scale-wise.
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  June 05, 2008 at 04:34 Mageling says It certainly has so far... Let's hope you don't help kill this like you probably did to twitter
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  June 05, 2008 at 04:38 boredandblogging thinks we will find out if there is some big news event that everyone starts talking about
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  June 05, 2008 at 07:15 Scoundrel says WWDC?
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  June 05, 2008 at 07:19 zsafwan says IM is not working, it worked for while but now it is offline
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  June 05, 2008 at 07:38 Jase says Hope so!
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  June 05, 2008 at 13:03 sweetsmiles says wondering what will happen if plurk follows twitter's history. hope the guys knows the load
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  June 05, 2008 at 13:07 shaf w2k7beta not only that for the same amount of users as twitter, plurk will have to work 2-3s as harder due to greater functionality offered
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  June 05, 2008 at 13:08 AdamDesAutels I sure hope so
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  June 05, 2008 at 13:09 ianbetteridge says shaf A lot depends on how it's engineered. Twitter would be very scalable if they'd designed it as a messaging system, not a CMS.
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  June 05, 2008 at 13:11 shaf loves ianbetteridge. You took the words right out of my mouth. Message queues, message queues, message queues
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  June 05, 2008 at 13:12 ianbetteridge says plus, of course, fitter hamsters to run in the wheels that power their servers!
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  June 05, 2008 at 13:13 codemonke says so far so good but the load is nowhere near twitters yet
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  June 05, 2008 at 13:48 mahadewa says that it is so too early to tell. They haven't released their API yet. When they do, we will see.
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  June 05, 2008 at 14:01 shaf mahadewa plurk is already budging at the seams. A good indicator to check is to see if their IM bot is up. If it is... the load can cope
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  June 05, 2008 at 15:20 nethead says so far it has
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  June 05, 2008 at 15:21 NikkiPilkington doesn't hold out much hope as the userbase gets bigger
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  June 05, 2008 at 15:24 shaf feels he has faith in this platform. It's doing a lot more work than you realise.
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  June 06, 2008 at 04:06 sweetsmiles at this pt, I think yes. but I cannot say for sure if scob manages to pull in >20K followers and having >20k+ plurking at any one time.
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  June 06, 2008 at 04:07 sweetsmiles asks scob if he know the hardware used for plurk
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  June 06, 2008 at 04:08 deanLo I fink so. Hey scobleizer why won't you approve mah friend request, man?
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  June 30, 2008 at 17:31 rumford says so far so good. i think since they do not have all the developer API hits it just might survive and scale.
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  June 30, 2008 at 17:56 Dr. Subtilis says "
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  June 30, 2008 at 18:53 webpenguin says can't get Twitter right now.
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  June 30, 2008 at 19:06 cmiper says Twitter has been a mess for weeks now, I just catch friends Twitter posts when they float to Friendfeed, haven't been posting Tweets much.
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  July 01, 2008 at 06:24 gregwilliams says Throw the bones.
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  July 01, 2008 at 06:27 bnycastro thinks yes because they don't have SMS and IM. i think plurk has a smaller update foot print vs twitter.
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  July 01, 2008 at 10:08 Charlie says yes.