February 20, 2009 by Matt Thomas
Its official, in 2008, Myspace and Facebook suffered much less downtime than the other main social networking sites. That’s according to a report from Pingdom, an outfit which monitors websites around the world. The group studied 15 of the world’s more popular social networks for the entirety of 2008 and found significant differences in outages and down-time.
The best performing sites – those that remained fully operational 99.9% of the time or more – were Classmates.com, Xanga, Facebook, MySpace and Imeem. The most significant outage was suffered by Friendster, which was down for more than 23 hours over the course of three days due to an issue at the data centre, though a third of the sites surveyed suffered more than a day and a half of downtime over the year.
Somewhat surprisingly, the worst performer overall was micro-blogging site, twitter, which embarrassingly, suffered more downtime than any other social networking site in 2008. However, Pingdom did note that the site improved vastly towards the end of 2008, just in time to handle the massive influx of users it is currently enjoying.
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