Comments on: 250K New Users Add Facebook Every Day http://facereviews.com/2008/07/01/250k-new-users-add-facebook-every-day/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:30:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Social Networking vs. Reunion With Former Classmates http://facereviews.com/2008/07/01/250k-new-users-add-facebook-every-day/#comment-103494 Social Networking vs. Reunion With Former Classmates Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:57:44 +0000 http://facereviews.com/2008/07/01/250k-new-users-add-facebook-every-day/#comment-103494 [...] would like to think my perspective is the more dominant view. With more and more people on social networks, the opportunity to connect with past relationships is ever more likely.  I would like to think [...] […] would like to think my perspective is the more dominant view. With more and more people on social networks, the opportunity to connect with past relationships is ever more likely.  I would like to think […]

]]> By: Erik Giberti http://facereviews.com/2008/07/01/250k-new-users-add-facebook-every-day/#comment-103212 Erik Giberti Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:26:44 +0000 http://facereviews.com/2008/07/01/250k-new-users-add-facebook-every-day/#comment-103212 Rodney, While it's true Facebook doesn't go down as they scale, they've also put a much larger investment into their hardware. Then there was the big purchase of servers just a few months ago to add to their estimated 10K servers... well, if Twitter had that kind of hardware - I'm sure they'd be up 99% of the time too! If Mike Arrington is right about 3 primary MySQL servers running the whole show at Twitter, it should come as no surprise that they've got performance issues. Text messaging isn't "free" for providers and I'm sure they spend a pretty penny on keeping up with the SMS charges. Ultimately, I think it's an unfair comparison. Twitter's received $20M to date where as Facebook has received $496 and has a revenue stream with ads to boot! Erik Rodney,

While it’s true Facebook doesn’t go down as they scale, they’ve also put a much larger investment into their hardware. Then there was the big purchase of servers just a few months ago to add to their estimated 10K servers… well, if Twitter had that kind of hardware - I’m sure they’d be up 99% of the time too! If Mike Arrington is right about 3 primary MySQL servers running the whole show at Twitter, it should come as no surprise that they’ve got performance issues. Text messaging isn’t “free” for providers and I’m sure they spend a pretty penny on keeping up with the SMS charges.

Ultimately, I think it’s an unfair comparison. Twitter’s received $20M to date where as Facebook has received $496 and has a revenue stream with ads to boot!

Erik

]]> By: Ryan Merket http://facereviews.com/2008/07/01/250k-new-users-add-facebook-every-day/#comment-103209 Ryan Merket Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:38:50 +0000 http://facereviews.com/2008/07/01/250k-new-users-add-facebook-every-day/#comment-103209 "But Don't Use PHP!" It doesn't matter what language you build a site in, as long as you hire the right people to build a scalable product, you should be fine in PHP or RoR. “But Don’t Use PHP!”

It doesn’t matter what language you build a site in, as long as you hire the right people to build a scalable product, you should be fine in PHP or RoR.

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