Despite continued changes in its staff and infrastructure, Twitter continues to experience frequent outages. Its users are responding creatively.
Travel.yahoo.com hasn't had any downtime at all in 2008, while other major travel sites have been off-line for up to 10 hours this year.
A power outage at the data center for The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) link to a suspension of all commodities trading on ICE Thursday morning.
Twitter had the worst uptime performance of any of the major social networks in the first four months of 2007. MySpace was the most reliable.