SquareUP
THE ORIGINAL PURPOSE OF TWITTER? Jack Dorsey of Twitter fame, now engaged in a new venture, SquareUP.com. Surely there was a plan to start making money in there somewhere. Hmm, get people thinking along the lines of how simple communications can be on the Web. Move it one step forward.
The Connection to Apple Server Technology
Twitter is about as pure a client-server architecture as a Web app can be. The server of choice for the Twitter founders, going forward into SquareUP, would logically be what they have found works best.
Twitter staggered under the weight of it's own success a handful of times. Servers went down, temporarily. Yet,Twitter always climbed back out from under the load, usually rather quickly. Considering some sudden massive peaks in popularity, it was an amazing feat to observe.
With 12,500 tweets logged, beginning October 2007, I can speak with a little authority on the subject of Twitter downtime. A few of those tweets were precisely for the purpose of logging dates and times of Twitter downtime!
SquareUP, Help Wanted February 23, 2010
Site Operations Engineer
Responsibilities & Duties
- Configuring Linux and OS X systems.
Hmm. The top pure play in client-server technology for the Web is using two types of servers.
Good hardware is important for laptops, doubly important for servers. Pretty obvious where squareup is investing. And if already invested in hardware, may as well leave the "pretty face" installed. OS X Server is not particularly big. Cycle consuming GUI need not be loaded if not desired. But it is still nice to know it is there, if and when needed. Not everybody knows unix. And a whole lot of people are learning a whole lot about OS X these days.
Who Could Have Guessed Twitter Would Move into MicroPayments?
Tooting my own horn pretty hard here, but I spotted some forward implications for Twitter the first time I saw it. In fact, my second application of Twitter, was for basic accounting. I built a Twitter based check book stubber.
- tweet #742 dated 2007-11-09 07:31:16 twitteraccounting table created and tested
- tweet #748 dated 2007-11-09 09:47:50 twitteracct called with ||xr, type, amt, payee, budget, refnum|| works, search swelectric for example
- x ck 65.60 swelectric utilities 5730 2007-11-09 08:53:35
Twitter, simplest possible interfaces. That is the contribution to Web communications. SquareUP is simply a next logical step foward, increasing the usefulness of the Web for everyday people.
Cheers and a big thanks to Twitter founders and the new SquareUP team for doing what they can to make the Web a simpler way to communicate.
More.. http://www.squareup.com