CheckMySite.com (www.checkmysite.com), the global uptime monitoring service, has reported Twitter, the phenomenally fast-growing community site, has not improved upon its uptime statistics, according to the results of a study in which the front page of Twitter.com was continually monitored over the past 12 months and failed to show an increase in uptime. “People everywhere have come to love the Twitter site, and this has made it a household name,” said Andrew Stock, the international sales director of CheckMySite.com. “So, the operators of the site should consider it a responsibility to improve their uptime, since the experience of downtime will frustrate Twitter users and damage the site’s reputation.”

Month                                Uptime %
October 2008                   99.78
November 2008               99.32                                                                                   
December 2008              99.97
January 2009                   99.92
February 2009                 99.85
March 2009                      99.77
April 2009                        99.85
May 2009                         99.42
June 2009                        99.85
July 2009                          99.92
August 2009                     99.15
September 2009             99.83
October 2009                   99.18
November 2009               99.91

Twitter has suffered considerable downtime over the past year. In fact, for the purpose of comparison CheckMySite.com has also monitored Facebook and MySpace. The Facebook and MySpace sites have an uptime of 100%, meaning there is virtually no occurrence of frustrated access among visitors. “Any company that has an uptime statistic of less than 99.9% should definitely work to improve the situation,” Stock said. “After all, downtime is never helpful. Instead, it costs money, damages your reputation and decreases page views.” It is our business, as a global monitoring service, to keep our clients informed of their site performance so that potential problems can be handled proactively. There is simply no reason that any major site should accept the occurrence of downtime.”

CheckMySite.com is dedicated to the accurate, reliable monitoring of websites and servers from multiple locations worldwide, serving customers from its North American office in San Francisco, California. Checkpoints are located in various countries, including U.S.A., Canada, the U.K., Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Singapore, China and Australia. The 12-month study described above involved the monitoring of website front pages exclusively; no aspect of maintenance was considered in the research. Additional information is available from the following:CheckMySite.com North America +1 (415) 738-0517CheckMySite.com Europe: +31 85-2733599 www.checkmysite.com