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08-07-2009, 04:30 AM
Twitter was the victim of a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack, the same one that Facebook encountered, and went down for about three hours. Facebook took it way better and managed to stay on top with just slowing of service leading folks to speculate once again if FaceBook has the stronger network. Obviously if Twitter is to reach one billion users ahead of Facebook as per its self confessed intentions, it has to polish its site’s reliability and speed.
Last month, in the latest episode of the riveting saga in the clash between the two titans, stolen internal documents (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/16/twitters-internal-strategy-laid-bare-to-be-the-pulse-of-the-planet/) were published by TechCrunch--network infrastructure completely exposed Twitter’s true vulnerabilities and dilemmas in the face of Facebook ‘s aggressive features and manoeuvres including Facebook adopting real-time search (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/16/facebook-fixes-search-but-only-in-beta/), changing the opt-in options to make status messages public (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/24/facebook-brings-privacy-controls-to-publisher/), emphasizing its SMS features (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/04/showing-its-twitter-envy-facebook-gets-serious-about-sms/), and copying Twitter’s functionality (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/04/facebooks-response-to-twitter/) and user-interface. For the full version of the Exposé, visit techcrunch.com (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/16/twitters-internal-strategy-laid-bare-to-be-the-pulse-of-the-planet/)
Last month, in the latest episode of the riveting saga in the clash between the two titans, stolen internal documents (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/16/twitters-internal-strategy-laid-bare-to-be-the-pulse-of-the-planet/) were published by TechCrunch--network infrastructure completely exposed Twitter’s true vulnerabilities and dilemmas in the face of Facebook ‘s aggressive features and manoeuvres including Facebook adopting real-time search (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/16/facebook-fixes-search-but-only-in-beta/), changing the opt-in options to make status messages public (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/24/facebook-brings-privacy-controls-to-publisher/), emphasizing its SMS features (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/04/showing-its-twitter-envy-facebook-gets-serious-about-sms/), and copying Twitter’s functionality (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/04/facebooks-response-to-twitter/) and user-interface. For the full version of the Exposé, visit techcrunch.com (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/16/twitters-internal-strategy-laid-bare-to-be-the-pulse-of-the-planet/)