Twitter Isn’t the Most Reliable Social Network, but it is Improving

As all Twitter veterans know, the fail whale is not an uncommon sighting. Twitter has had its fair share of downtime over the years. But despite the fact that it is still below average when it comes to homepage availability, its engineering team has done a great job of responding to a rapidly expanding user-base and improving its up time.

Web performance management company AlertSite, a SmartBear company, took a look at the leading social networks’ homepage availability for Q1, and found Twitter to be lacking – but not by much.

They monitored the homepages of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and MySpace from 12 difference US locations between January and March 2011.

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