Yesterday the guys from Twitter Ben Fullerton, Alex Payne, and Blaine Cook led a session at BarCamp about their microblogging sensation, Twitter.  Their tagline,"What are you doing?" encourages people to participate. In an earlier session we talked about all the cool things we could do with Twitter but they noted there are some constraints to the system (140 characters, SMS, etc.). Frequent Twitter users know that the service has had many ups and downs outages and slowness, growing pains caused by overwhelming success. 

Here is what the Twitter guys shared in their talk:

• Twitter measures success by number of updates even though they have had their biggest page views week every.
• 60% of Web traffic is International
• 39% of web traffic comes from Japan but doesn’t work on Japanese phones
• During the 4th quarter of the SuperBowl the Twitter usage spiked by greater than 2x that of any other point in the game.
• Alex Payne said that Twitter’s number one priority right now is stability
• Page views per Month is way more than 300 million, in a much shorter amount of time.
• 80% of Twitter users follow less than 10 people

Their challenge is to make Twitter more relevant outside of the technical crowd. They stated their goal is to figure out how to increase the number of rich meaningful interactions not creating large networks of people. I would have never guessed how addictive Twitter would become for me but now that I am hooked I look forward to what’s next. 

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BarCamp Enterprise Systems Management is going on in Austin this weekend if you are interested in systems management please feel free to attend.

J. BLACK’S, Feel Good Lounge
710 W. 6th
Austin, Texas 78701
512.535.8283
www.jblacks.com

Friday Night (01/18/08):

We are planning a kick off party Friday night at J. BLACKS starting around 6pm.  This will be a good time to get to meet, plan, and enjoy.

Saturday (01/19/08)

Thedoors will open at 9am and then go till around 5 or 6pm. Beverages willbe served during the entire time, and we are making arrangements forLunch and Dinner too.

In true Barcamp style most of the sessions will be arranged and scheduled dynamically by the participants.

Technorati Tags: Austin, BarCamp, ESM, Systems Management

We have the venue for BarCamp Enterprise Systems Management

The sign-up sheet shows representatives from OpenNMS, Zenoss, Nagios, Alterpoint, BMC, Sun, IBM, Puppet. It should be a good opportunity to come speak with people who develop the software you might already use. 

J. BLACK’S, Feel Good Lounge
710 W. 6th
Austin, Texas 78701
512.535.8283
www.jblacks.com

Friday Night (01/18/08):

We are planning a kick off party Friday night at J. BLACKS starting around 6pm.  This will be a good time to get to meet, plan, and enjoy.

Saturday (01/19/08)

The doors will open at 9am and then go till around 5 or 6pm. Beverages will be served during the entire time, and we are making arrangements for Lunch and Dinner too.

In true Barcamp style most of the sessions will be arranged and scheduled dynamically by the participants.  However the three panel session times will be posted shortly in the sessions page (http://barcamp.org/BarCampESMSessions).

Technorati Tags: Austin, BarCamp, enteprise, Systems Management, TX