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As the Twendly website now says:
Twendly is closed (3rd Apr 2010) - but we'll be back!
We built Twendly to demonstrate the concept of a people centric search engine for Twitter, and thanks to your support, it's been very successful.
Unfortunately due to the limitations of the current engine technology and increasing data volumes it was becoming unstable.
We've taken the decision to shut Twendly down to allow us more time to focus on launching Tribalytic, our new Twitter Analytics product which uses a brand new, more scalable engine. Once Tribalytic has launched, our current plan is to re-launch Twendly using this new engine, which will give a faster and more reliable experience.
If you'd like to know more about Tribalytic or further information on Twendly, please sign up on the mailing list below. We promise we won't spam you - we're too hard at work to have the time anyway even if we wanted to (which of course we don't - we hate spam!).
Thanks for your support, Tim and Alex
While sad for us, we do see this as a positive step for our business because it means our core product is a significant step closer to launch.
To provide a little bit more background.
Twendly used a prototype engine similar in function, but not in technology or design, to the engine we are building for Tribalytic.
As we approach a launch of Tribalytic, it's clear that the new engine requires some dedicated resources to perform at it's best. Given we are an early stage start-up, we've decided to use the servers dedicated to Twendly for Tribalytic instead, largely because Tribalytic will be a chargeable product and so has priority for our business.
The positive news is that the engine we've developed for Tribalytic delivers the same core features as Twendly (but much faster and a much more scalable way) as well as many other features (location based search anyone?).
Once Tribalytic has been launched and is stable, our current plan is to reintroduce Twendly using the same underlying data, enabling us to once more provide a generic people centric search for Twitter while not having to "double up" on our resources.
We really are proud of Twendly and what it's achieved, but unfortunately we couldn't justify the expense in both hardware and time at this point to keep it running.
The Twendly site (
http://twendly.com) has a sign up for a mailing list if you'd like to be notified of a relaunch or to find out more about Tribalytic.
Thanks
Tim and Alex
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