Twitterfeed Failure Affects Thousands Of Companies

April 30, 2009 9:01 a.m. EST

 
West Palm Beach, FL (AHN) - As Twitter's popularity continues to increase, the reliance on third party entities to complete Twitter updates via a RSS feed is becoming more prevalent. However, much like Twitter itself, the demands on such programs are growing at a faster rate than developers anticipated.

Twitterfeed is one such program that offers to tweet the last posts published in a blog via a RSS feed. The free service, however, was taken offline due to database issues.

Mario Menti, head of Twitterfeed, has been keeping users abreast of the situation via his own twitter page.

Earlier Thursday Menti tweeted, "Apologies for the continuing downtime. We're physically moving data to a different setup, and this process is taking a very long time. We should however be back later today."

Currently, the situation seems to be under control as Twitterfeeds most recent tweet reads, "I'm bringing services back up... fingers crossed."

Migrating a database to a different server may seem like a technology issue that doesn't affect the broader spectrum of the population.

However, many news agencies have begun to rely on twitterfeed as a means to update their twitter pages with the same content that they run on their websites. AHN is one such company that has experienced a lack of updates to the company's twitter page due to twitterfeed's server issues.

AHN, like many news agencies, maintains a twitter feed for breaking news content. The feed can be accessed @AHN. AHN has also started a specific feed for H1N1 updates @H1N1-Flu-News