It was a bumpy ride, though. Remember when Twitter was a joke? A perpetual joke about server instability? The amount of downtime Twitter had back in 2008, continuing into the first half of 2009, would have killed many web startups. No matter how good your service is, if people can't use it, they'll go elsewhere.
Surprisingly though, Twitter has proven to be resilient enough to withstand all that. When it went down, people would joke about it with nervous Fail Whale cracks on FriendFeed. When it came back up, everyone would start tweeting like nothing ever happened. And although these frequent downtimes continued for over a year, somewhere in the middle of 2009, Twitter finally found its balance. The users? Well, they're still tweeting like nothing ever happened.
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