Many Twitter applications have suffered lengthy periods of downtime recently, a situation that has some developers concerned about the company’s platform stability.
These developers, who have invested effort and money in building revenue-generating Twitter applications, are hoping Twitter figures out a way to increase the application platform’s uptime.
http://www.cio.com.au/article/315466/developers_eager_see_twitter_improve_platform_stability
There was a lot of talk about Twitter being a free service and that we shouldn’t complain about it being down, but Twitter actively wants people to build businesses off of Twitter’s infrastructure