{"id":4297,"date":"2009-02-18T14:14:40","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T18:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=4297"},"modified":"2009-02-18T14:14:40","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T18:14:40","slug":"for-social-networks-uptime-doesnt-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2009\/02\/18\/for-social-networks-uptime-doesnt-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"For social networks, uptime doesn&#8217;t matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Users of social networks choose where to spend their time based on factors entirely outside of those such as uptime and reliability, according to report issued Tuesday (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pingdom.com\/_img\/press\/pingdom_20090217_social_network_downtime_2008.pdf\">PDF link<\/a>) by Pingdom, a service that tracks web site uptime and optimization for companies. Not that such things aren\u2019t important \u2014 after all, a social network isn\u2019t going to be of much use if people can\u2019t log in or use the features. But the Pingdom report shows that when it comes right down to it, those things don\u2019t matter nearly as much as one might think. Take a look at the chart below, which sorts social networks according to their total downtime in 2008. <\/p>\n<p><i>(read the <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/02\/18\/when-it-comes-to-social-networks-uptime-doesnt-matter\/\">rest of this post<\/a> at GigaOm)<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users of social networks choose where to spend their time based on factors entirely outside of those such as uptime and reliability, according to report issued Tuesday (PDF link) by Pingdom, a service that tracks web site uptime and optimization for companies. Not that such things aren\u2019t important \u2014 after all, a social network isn\u2019t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2009\/02\/18\/for-social-networks-uptime-doesnt-matter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;For social networks, uptime doesn&#8217;t matter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}