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Twitter Continues to Battle Crippling Fail Whale, Online Ad Sales Closing in on Print

by Warren Riddle on June 15, 2010 at 11:50 AM

Twitter Places knocks down service
Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines....
  • Just yesterday, the Twitter Blog trumpeted the site's new Places location-tagging feature, but the service almost immediately forced the increasingly frequent Fail Whale to surface. The "failed enhancement" reportedly blocked users' access to feeds, and some individual tweets appeared numerous times. According to a Twitter Status blog update last night, the site had "fully recovered," but this morning -- just 10 hours later -- engineers were "responding to [another] incident." [From: The Telegraph]
  • The Internet just surpassed magazines in terms of overall advertising revenue, and analysts with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) now assert that online ad spending should also eclipse that of newspapers by 2014. As of now, the print numbers narrowly lead $24.82 billion to $24.2 billion, but PwC believes that -- while newspapers continue to experience a revenue decline -- online sales should soon pass the $30 billion mark. Television now remains the only medium impeding the Web's ascent to total ad dominance.[From: The Wall Street Journal]
  • Analysts initially indicated that the Kindle 2.5 update, with its anticipated e-reader integration with Facebook and Twitter, would be widely available in May. We're now, obviously, well into June, and Amazon is finally providing wireless-connected U.S. consumers with the downloadable firmware. [From: Kindle]
  • The year of the tablet continues on its torrid, yet tedious pace. BlackBerry developer RIM, after nixing a similar Palm idea almost four years ago, now hopes to hop on the Kindle/iPad bandwagon by developing its own e-reader. [From: Engadget]
  • The tragic and bewildering Foxconn suicide epidemic is apparently inspiring a typically secretive Chinese government to adopt a temporary period of transparency. Its Human Resources and Social Security Ministry reportedly plans to publicly release the findings of an upcoming official investigation into the matter. [From: Engadget]

Tags: advertising, amazon, blackberry, china, deathofprint, e-reader, fail whale, FailWhale, foxconn, kindle, kindle2.5, morningxtra, PricewaterhouseCoopers, rim, top, twitter, twitterplaces

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