Twitter Co-Founder: “We Must Be Reliable,” 24/7
by Russell Shaw
After Twitter suffered some big honkin’ service disruptions during Apple CEO Steve Jobs Macworld keynote yesterday, the circumstances surrounding those bugs moved Twitter co-founder Biz Stone to author a kind of mea culpa blog post.
Google veteran Biz wrote:
One week ago we announced the hiring of Lee Mighdoll as Vice President of Engineering and Operations. Lee’s immediate goal is to help turn Twitter into a reliable communication network that people all over the world can depend on every day.
The challenge facing Lee and our entire Twitter team was highlighted this morning during Steve Jobs’ keynote address.
Macworld is only one event, in one city. Twitter must be reliable around the world, around the clock, and it must accommodate all sudden bursts of real-time messages—everything from Apple announcements to natural disasters.
Whoa, quite a mea “gulpa” there, Biz.
Biz ends his post with a plea for help-and for those with an interest and a suitable professional tech background to help Lee Mighdoll, to apply on the jobs section of the Twitter site.
