Dan Wilson’s Blog

Somewhere, hundreds of small startups are now incapable of development.

Although TechCrunch can’t stop raving about every single little service and startup that is built around Twitter, the service’s downtime proves that it and its whole ecosystem isn’t feasible.

Could you imagine if MySQL went down. Not the site, the database on which thousands of LAMP applications are built. The would be the end of that platform. Everyone would migrate off of it, and it would die a quick and painful death. Period.

Here’s to a 2009 of celebrating Twitter and its ecosystem as the best and most amazing service on the Internet.