NBC San Diego – It’s day three at SXSW Interactive and people are buzzing about the famous names, the happening parties, and yesterday’s keynote speech on Google Buzz’s privacy blunders byDanah Boyd. A large majority are also busy tweeting about Twitter and Foursquare issues — highlighting just how important these services have become to the interactive lifestyle.
Crimson Hexagon looked at a representative sample of tweets over the past three days and found that a chunk of the backchannel conversation is focused around frustration with Twitter issues and Foursquare hiccups. Of the 4,500 tweets analyzed, 27% are discussing the startups’ challenges trying to keep the lights on.
Relatively speaking both Twitter and Foursquare are handling the excessive load quite well. Sure there have been blips on the radar, but those blips have been amplified by the nature of the respective social media services.
Of course Foursquare can wear the exclamatory tweets over service outages as a badge of honor. The location-sharing service is now a legitimate contender for mainstream attention and the tweets demonstrate just how much users have integrated checkins into their digital lives. Demonstrating such, Foursquare achieved a major milestone yesterday — 347,000 checkins in one day.
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