Twitter Uptime Worst Of All Social Networks
May 6th, 2008
We’re fans of Twitter (podcastmama & podcasting_news), but have been surprised by the site’s frequent downtime.
Turns out there’s legitimate reason for concern: Twitter has the worst uptime of all the major social networks.
Availability monitoring company Pingdom.com released availability stats for the major social networks today, and Twitter comes out in last place:
| Social Network | Home page (monitored) | Downtime | Uptime % |
|---|---|---|---|
| www.twitter.com | 37h 16m | 98.72% | |
| Reunion.com | www.reunion.com | 18h 55m | 99.35% |
| Pownce * | www.pownce.com | 13h 20m | 99.44% |
| Bebo | www.bebo.com | 14h 13m | 99.51% |
| hi5 | www.hi5.com | 12h 59m | 99.55% |
| Windows Live Spaces | spaces.live.com | 9h 40m | 99.67% |
| www.linkedin.com | 7h 40m | 99.74% | |
| Friendster | www.friendster.com | 6h 50m | 99.76% |
| Last.fm | www.last.fm | 6h 10m | 99.79% |
| Orkut | www.orkut.com | 3h 0m | 99.90% |
| www.facebook.com | 2h 29m | 99.91% | |
| Classmates.com | www.classmates.com | 2h 20m | 99.92% |
| Yahoo! 360 | 360.yahoo.com | 1h 40m | 99.94% |
| LiveJournal | www.livejournal.com | 1h 25m | 99.95% |
| Xanga | www.xanga.com | 1h 25m | 99.95% |
| MySpace | www.myspace.com | 1h 5m | 99.96% |
The table is sorted so the sites with the worst availability are at the top. Twitter’s availability is a full percentage point behind sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, & MySpace.
Twitter hasn’t made the leap to mainstream adoption yet. Is the site’s unreliability one of the reasons?
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