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Hasty Divorce for Twitter, Joyent

Posted By Rich Miller On January 31, 2008 @ 5:01 pm In Downtime | Comments Disabled

It seems Twitter [1] wasn’t being forthright about its relationship with Joyent. Just hours after publishing a tribute [2] to its “trusty infrastructure provider,” Twitter has ceased using Joyent. Here’s the update from Joyent CEO David Young [3]:
Twitter has been officially off Joyent since 10PM last night. This may come as a surprise to some after yesterday’s posts regarding the two companies working together. Those of us at Joyent appreciate the opportunity we had to work with the talented folks at Twitter. It is a great service. We wish Twitter every continued success.

After yesterday’s post praising Joyent, Twitter was offline last night as it conducted planned maintenance. A Netcraft report [4] and traceroute show Twitter is now using services from NTT/Verio.


“The good news is we finished a major infrastructure project tonight, which we’ve been working on for months and that we think is going to help a lot,” wrote Twitter founder Ev Williams. “I’m sure there will be some glitches in the coming weeks, but we’ve laid some important foundation that’s going to help us build toward the future.”

Strained relations between customers and providers can be tricky. But if Twitter was working for months on migrating off Joyent and praised them yesterday, it may not boost the credibility of the company’s user updates on its performance problems.

We now return to our regular programming …

About Rich Miller [5]

Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.

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[1] Twitter: http://www.twitter.com

[2] tribute: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/Jan/31/twitter_touts_joyent_amid_more_outages.html

[3] update from Joyent CEO David Young: http://www.joyeur.com/2008/01/31/twitter-and-joyent-update

[4] Netcraft report: http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://twitter.com

[5] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/

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