An apology first: I have been way too busy with school and a new job; with any luck, I’ll post more than once per quarter in the future 
So twitter’s down this morning. According to an article on PCMag.com:
The popular microblogging site Twitter went down early Thursday morning, with the site’s operators confirming the outage on a status blog as a denial-of-service attack.
Long before pop culture hooked on to Twitter, I made comments on a number of outlets about microblogging as a potential service offering, much like email. In the year that has passed, there are hundreds of thousands of active users, as well as strong representation in media outlets and other organizations. Great.
However, this morning’s apparent DOS attack highlights a vulnerability with a single-site service: when it fails, activity is suspended. The premise behind the Internet was to distribute communication nodes in order to maintain operational viability (in case the country is nuked, we’d still be able to chat about it. Strange, huh?).
I’ll come back to my example of using microblogging as a new service. Distribute the infrastructure and risk… and perhaps give Twitter a new business model. At some point, guys, the VC capital will run out.
