Created Wed 13th Aug 6:44am PDT by

Will twitter be down for at least 2h in august 2008

Settled as No

Twitter was down for 58 mins in August.

http://www.pingdom.com/reports/vb1395a6sww3/check_overview/?name=twitter.com%2Fhome

Background:

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send updates (otherwise known as tweets) which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.
Since 2007 Twitter has begun experiencing problems related to its growing user base. The service has experienced outages resulting from traffic overloads due to its increased popularity. Twitter experienced approximately 98% uptime in 2007, or about 3 full days of downtime. Twitter's downtime was particularly noticeable during events popular with the technology industry, such as the 2008 Macworld Conference & Expo keynote address. Will it go down again in August?

(this background replaces the previous background that mistakenly referred to Gmail)

Settlement details: As reported by a major mainstream news source.
http://istwitterdown.com/

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Settled

Yes

11%

89%

Activity: H$34,802

Settled as No on Mon 1st Sep 10am PDT

Suspend date: Sun 31st Aug 4:59pm PDT Settlement date: Mon 1st Sep 10am PDTPrediction cut-off: Predictions on this question after Sun 31st Aug 4:59pm PDT have been voided because they were made after the question could be settled

Initial likelihoods: Yes: 50%

Action history:

Created Wed 13th Aug 6:44am PDT by

mfriss

Suspended Sun 31st Aug 4:59pm PDT : Suspend date reached

Settlement requested Mon 1st Sep 9:56am PDT by

newswrangler [Power User]

: Winning prediction = "No"

Twitter was down for 58 minutes in August.

<http://www.pingdom.com/reports/vb1395a6sww3/check_overview/?name=twitter.com%2Fhome>

Settled as 'No' Mon 1st Sep 10am PDT by

tomg

: Twitter was down for 58 mins in August.

http://www.pingdom.com/reports/vb1395a6sww3/check_overview/?name=twitter.com%2Fhome

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13 weeks ago

bency predicted No (H$100 at 87%)

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kiwifire predicted No (H$140 at 87%)

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kruijs [Power User]

predicted No (H$1,000 at 83%)

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jessemarket predicted No (H$424 at 83%)

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pippi1500 predicted No (H$50 at 83%)

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tomg

Background edited to refer to Twitter not Gmail

posted 15 weeks ago

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