Twitterfall + Gmail Fail Gives a Sense of Twitter Scale
by Iain on February 24, 2009
If you’ve not seen Twitterfall it’s quite nice. It streams in Twitter messages with certain keywords in real time. It makes twitter feel like a bit joined up community (which it isn’t really). What really freaked me out was watching it during the Gmail outage so I grabbed some video of what it looked like:
It’s strangely compelling to watch. In spite of the complete drivel that’s being poured onto the internet.
In the 9 minutes or so that I was capturing this the number of messages in the queue went from zero to 1,800. That’s more than 3 people a second assuming that Twitterfall capture everything. All whining about the same stuff.
I think it’s the first time I’ve really ‘felt’ the scale of Twitter. It was a bit overwhelming really. I dread to think what it’d be like to feel the pressure on the Googleplex.
Thanks to Jonathan for pointing out the Twitterfall.
4 comments
That video needs a donk in it.
by Ben on 24/02/2009 at 3:00 pm. #
[...] show just how transparent the effects of social media can cause your company to become. Thanks to Iain Tait for the video and Sampad Swain for some more information on today’s events. This entry was [...]
by Gmail Goes Down and is Captured on Twitterfall - Backlit Creative on 24/02/2009 at 11:09 pm. #
I love it that so many people feel the need to announce their discovery. XP
by Kelsey on 02/03/2009 at 1:46 am. #
sooo basically it’s an AOL chat room, and we’re back in ’97
by SCOTTT™ on 06/03/2009 at 4:56 am. #