{"id":2514,"date":"2008-06-24T21:11:26","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T01:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=2514"},"modified":"2008-06-24T21:11:26","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T01:11:26","slug":"twitter-gets-cash-can-it-be-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/06\/24\/twitter-gets-cash-can-it-be-fixed\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter gets cash — can it be fixed?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As has been rumoured for some time now, Twitter has closed a financing round — and with some all-star money types, including Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital — although no one is saying<\/a> how much the round was (rumours continue to be $15-million), or what the valuation placed on the company is. All that aside, the big question is whether it’s going to be able to fix what is broken at Twitter, and — assuming it can — whether people are willing to wait around until that gets done. For the past couple of months, the downtime at Twitter has been far higher than virtually any other social-media tool I can think of, and there has been a constant stream<\/a> of people either leaving for Jaiku or Pownce, or moving their social graph to FriendFeed and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

As Mike Arrington said awhile back at TechCrunch, it’s possible that Twitter has become so central to<\/a> some people’s online behaviour patterns that it almost doesn’t matter how much it goes down, because people will bitch and moan about it — and then get right back on Twitter and complain about how much it goes down. I for one hope that Ev and Biz and the team are busy building a completely separate<\/a> architecture they can migrate the service over to at some point, because I think Twitter has established a clear place in the world of social media, and not just as a conversational or ego-stroking tool, but also as a news delivery mechanism<\/a>. I would hate to see that go to waste.<\/p>\n

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As has been rumoured for some time now, Twitter has closed a financing round — and with some all-star money types, including Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital — although no one is saying how much the round was (rumours continue to be $15-million), or what the valuation placed on the … <\/p>\n

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