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Olympics May Be The Reason (Ha!) For Today’s Twitter Outage
Twitter’s having problems today! Oh, what’s that, you knew already? Well fine then. But we’ve just gotten our hands on some additional data related to today’s outage courtesy of application monitoring platform Compuware APM. The company pulled measurements from its backbone data centers, Last Mile network (actual end users) and mobile devices, and has basically documented the problem by examining response times across these sources.
We’re told that the current speculation is that the Twitter outage may have to do with the increased activity due to Olympics-related traffic.
The Olympics are expected to bring an unprecedented surge of activity by sports fans on social networking sites, the company tells us, and some sluggishness had already been reported. Compuware says it’s now diving into the data further to determine whether or not the outage had anything to do with the increased Olympics traffic, or if that was merely a coincidence.
For those who missed it (i.e., people with a life), Twitter experienced an extended outage today beginning around 11:23 AM ET, according to reports from performance monitoring company Apica. The service briefly recovered at 12:04 PM, then crashed again at 12:15 PM. At 12:58 PM, Twitter started delivering server-side error codes. One of those was the pretty hilarious one you see above. For whatever reason (groan), the message handing function there didn’t fill in what the reason was, leaving users scratching their heads.
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Tonight: NBA Players Stephen Curry and Brandon Jennings to Talk NBA Finals with Fans on PlayUp
Prior to social media, sports commentary was a one-way conversation between television experts and viewers. This week, when the Miami Heat take on the Oklahoma City Thunder at the 2012 NBA Finals, fans can talk to insiders directly through PlayUp, a social networking app for sports fans. Tuesday night’s game will feature a live hangout session with Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry, starting at 9:00 p.m. ET.
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Social Media’s Influence on the Sports World [Infographic]
Being able to actually tell your favorite player that you are amazed by their strengths is a dream for fans. Instead of raving to strangers at the latest bar, social media services like Twitter are letting an increasing number of sports fans talk with the world at large, and connect with other super fans. Ideas like Twitter hashtags make it easy to rally around a team or player and discuss his/her performance. A new infographic looks at the new social media sports world.
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March Madness: Stats, stats, stats!
March Madness (an annual U.S. tradition where virtually all sports fans go crazy over college basketball finals tournaments) is underway. Want to keep track of what’s going on? There are many places on the internet to access statistics and other useful information as the games are played and…
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Has Internet Killed the Radio Jock? [Infographic]
As if television and radio weren’t distracting enough, social media sites on mobile devices have made it possible for die-hard sports fans to take the game with them anytime, anywhere. This infographic explores just how far the fans will go to keep up with their favorite teams.
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Sports and Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC]
It’s official: sports fans – and sports teams, organisations and athletes - love social media.
Platforms such as Twitter and Facebook have given fans the opportunity to stay connected with organizations, teams, sporting personalities, news outlets – and each other – which has been hugely successful for everyone involved.
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Set Up Your Rabbit Ears For Maximum Reception [Antenna]
For fair weather sports fans, playoff season is the time of year when we all start pretending to care about our local team and attempt to tune in our TV sets to channels we might not usually care about. With digital TV, it’s a bit more difficult to find a signal, but a few tricks will make the process easier. More »
Will Online Streaming Make The 2012 Super Bowl The Most-Watched In History?
The big news of the hour for sports fans (and web video fans) is that on Super Bowl Sunday 2012 viewers will be able to watch the big game not only on TV, but from their computers and mobile devices as well. That’s right—Super Bowl XLVI will be the first Super Bowl to be streamed online!
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Winter Sports Fans Like to Check In, Are Marketers Paying Attention?
As marketers we often have to pay attention to areas of life that we ourselves have no interest in. Many people get turned off when we talk about sports but guess what? Whether you, as a marketer, watch or not is COMPLETELY irrelevant. If your market is there you better be there as well no matter what your personal peccadilloes.
Why am I bringing this up? Well, many marketers are just beginning to understand the power of getting in front of the sports fan while they are at the event or anywhere for that matter. Sports fans, it turns out, aren’t all beer chugging galoots (how the heck to you really spell that anyway?). In fact they are, gulp, social media savvy! This goes WAY beyond beer advertising and Cialis as well. Check out this poll from Coyle Media and see which winter sport attracts real social media users.
Sports Marketing from Coyle Media, LLC.
Sports marketing often gets pigeon-holed as the domain of beer and all things low brow but that couldn’t be further from reality especially when marketers understand just how many Internet savvy fans are spending a lot of time and money around sports.
Are you paying enough attention to this segment? Could you be thinking outside the box to reach untapped markets for your products and services?
Infographic: Google Goes Wild With Android Market Stats
Google’s been celebrating their recent Android Market milestone with a string of discounted (and awesome) apps, but really — what’s a celebration without an infographic? Thankfully, Google has come through on that front with a slew of stats about the Android Market and the people who use it.
For example, despite Android being the most widely used smartphone OS in the United States, Americans are actually only the fourth most active app downloaders in the world. South Korea takes the top spot in this category, with Hong Kong and Taiwan coming in second and third respectively.
What’s more, the most popular time to download apps is 9PM on a Sunday, which certainly makes sense to me. After all, what better way to get pumped for a new week than to find apps that help kill time at work? Google also confirms that games are the most downloaded apps, although Android users don’t seem to be particularly big sports fans.
There’s a lot more to dig into, so take a few seconds and peruse — you know you’re dying to find out how many keystrokes people have collectively saved using SwiftKey.
