Comments on: Twitter’s growing pains http://aralbalkan.com/865 Passionate geekisms. Tue, 22 May 2012 18:33:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: andrew c. » Twitter Finally Gets a Grown-Up Design http://aralbalkan.com/865/comment-page-1#comment-81103 andrew c. » Twitter Finally Gets a Grown-Up Design Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:34:49 +0000 http://aralbalkan.com/865#comment-81103 [...] Twitter has just launched a new site design, finally varying from its trademark sky-blue and cloudy background. One of the biggest criticisms of Twitter over the past few months has been that it seems to be having major growing pains, and since it got a nice chunk of VC money back in July, it seems like it is overdue for kicking up the functionality a bit. There have been signs that this is finally happening: the ability to track topics and a long-overdue people search feature but the site has continued to look like a weekend project of an undergrad CS student. [...] [...] Twitter has just launched a new site design, finally varying from its trademark sky-blue and cloudy background. One of the biggest criticisms of Twitter over the past few months has been that it seems to be having major growing pains, and since it got a nice chunk of VC money back in July, it seems like it is overdue for kicking up the functionality a bit. There have been signs that this is finally happening: the ability to track topics and a long-overdue people search feature but the site has continued to look like a weekend project of an undergrad CS student. [...]

]]> By: Phillip Kerman http://aralbalkan.com/865/comment-page-1#comment-12092 Phillip Kerman Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:00:41 +0000 http://aralbalkan.com/865#comment-12092 It's sad that the inability to scale could well hurt/kill this site. It’s sad that the inability to scale could well hurt/kill this site.

]]> By: John Dowdell http://aralbalkan.com/865/comment-page-1#comment-12055 John Dowdell Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:49:10 +0000 http://aralbalkan.com/865#comment-12055 I think it's all those big Flash animations, they always slow things down.... ;-) (Actually, the sheer number of HTTP requests per page is the main cause I see of slow connections these days.) I think it’s all those big Flash animations, they always slow things down…. ;-)

(Actually, the sheer number of HTTP requests per page is the main cause I see of slow connections these days.)

]]> By: Campbell http://aralbalkan.com/865/comment-page-1#comment-12050 Campbell Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:39:05 +0000 http://aralbalkan.com/865#comment-12050 Hahaha yeah love it too and have noticed the time of some requests getting pretty long, but at the end of the day hardware is cheap, just might take some time to get clustering set up. Hahaha yeah love it too and have noticed the time of some requests getting pretty long, but at the end of the day hardware is cheap, just might take some time to get clustering set up.

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