Following on from my post about Wordpress being down a few days ago, Pingdom has put out some statistics on downtime for various social networks in 2008 so far:
Bebo www.bebo.com 12h 28m Windows Live Spaces spaces.live.com 7h 25m Friendster www.friendster.com 6h 0m hi5 www.hi5.com 5h 5m Reunion.com www.reunion.com 2h 55m www.linkedin.com 4h 0m Classmates.com www.classmates.com 2h 5m www.facebook.com 1h 35m Orkut www.orkut.com 1h 10m Last.fm www.last.fm 1h 10m Xanga www.xanga.com 45m MySpace www.myspace.com 25m LiveJournal www.livejournal.com 10m Yahoo! 360 360.yahoo.com 5m
Interesting that Yahoo! 360 does best, while Windows Live Spaces is second worst - which would be more likely to follow the other should the merger go through? Given that Microsoft’s propensity for “downtime” extends into the offline world with the frequent crashes of its desktop operating systems and software, that seems a hard trend to buck, but who knows?
