Twitpic is adding a huge amount of capacity in order to keep up with the sites current demand according to the Twitpic blog.
This is the first big step in making Twitpic more reliable. This move will put Twitpic on its new hardware platform with over 3 times it’s current capacity…basically we bought more hamsters and [...]

Twitter posted an update recently on the Twitter Status blog indicating they’ve almost squashed all the bugs that have impacted site performance recently.

The site has been sluggish the past couple days, but we’ve been making good progress on some of the more serious bugs.

We’ve largely resolved the database inconsistency issues that were responsible for a [...]

Nielsen recently released statistics that show Twitter is extremely popular among adults.  The recent study found that only 3 million of Twitter’s users are under 35, while adults aged 35-49 make up a staggering 42% (or about 3 million accounts) of Twitter’s user base. Additionally 1.5 million accounts are in use by those 55 or [...]

There are a few reports going around that Twitter along with other forms of social media will become part of the curriculum in primary schools in the UK. To make room for the additional course material various requirements in fields such as science, geography and history will lessened.

Jive.ly is a service currently in open beta which allows for the quick posting of rich media via MMS and Email. The service will automatically push content to services like Vimeo, YouTube and Flickr. In addition Jive.ly will synchronize with services such as Twitter and Tumblr. (via TechCrunch UK)

TechCrunch picked up on a minor tweak with rather large implications. Twitter has modified the title of all user pages greatly impacting search engine results for millions of users. The new structure places emphasis on a users real name instead of their online identity.

It seems everyone is clamoring to jump on the life streaming bandwagon. Gigaom is reporting that in a matter of months both Yahoo! and AOL will offer their users life streaming services.

There has been a lot of Twitter activity (and Volcanic activity) over @alaska_avo regarding Mount Redoubt which errupted six hours ago. Most recently Station RSO stopped transmitting updates. Find further details over at the Alaska Volcano Observatory Twitter page by clicking here.

Late last night Twitter was a rather lonely place. The constant stream of updates suddenly stopped. While the overall site remained functional, updates were not being pushed out making any conversation impossible. Anyone Tweeting really was just talking to themselves. Search was impacted as well which given the issue at the time that really doesn’t [...]

Some of it rings rather true, don’t you think?