The internet was supposed to be scalable in its original design. Its debatable whether that definition extends to applications built for the web.

Apparently not..

The struggle to maintain websites up and running 24/7 is currently a lost battle. Atleast for myspace and twitter. I tried myspace.com a year back and the page won’t even load. I am trying it again for the past couple of days and its only marginally better. I lost all my friend requests and/or invites.

Thank God the software from these guys is not used by my bank. You can only guess what happens if they write software for pacemakers.

Another quick hit in the web 2.0 that is plagued with intermittent service errors is twitter. You read about it here, pictures and all http://mashable.com/2007/12/17/twitter-maintenance/

Update (2007-12-21T04:14:30+00:00):

Techcrunch had a report on the raising twitter downtime, validating my earlier observation.

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