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Twitter, What Are You Doing? Co-Founder Tells All : NPR Twitter, What Are You Doing? Co-Founder Tells All : NPR

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"The latter prognosis stems from users who are growing frustrated by repeat sightings of the "fail whale," the whimsical image Twitter posts when it goes off service. "Why doesn't Twitter stay up and running for more than a few hours at a time?" writes Twitter user @cscan. "Why isn't it stable? Is it simply scale, or is something else going on?""

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18542_32 Tim Twitter, What Are You Doing? Co-Founder Tells All : NPR
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July 11, 2008

"For the record, [Twitter's Biz] Stone says someone using Twitter is not "tweeting" but "Twittering." Now you know."

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July 3, 2008

Twitter.com has so many new users that the Web site keeps crashing. Meanwhile, Twitter engineers are taking popular features away for retooling. It's a painful process, but co-founder Biz Stone has a plan.

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17090_32 Fail Whale Twitter, What Are You Doing? Co-Founder Tells All : NPR
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"The latter prognosis stems from users who are growing frustrated by repeat sightings of the "fail whale," the whimsical image Twitter posts when it goes off service. "Why doesn't Twitter stay up and running for more than a few ho...