Twitter is down. Super down. The status blog is silent on the issue, although the error message untruthfully says the site is down for database maintenance. If it was maintenance, it would be noted on the status blog. This is maintenance in the same way open heart surgery after a heart attack is maintenance.
We’ll know soon enough what happened. But for now it’s just nice to remember the good ‘ol days when we celebrated entire days going by without Twitter going down. The site has been far too stable lately, and I was beginning to get suspicious.
Update: Ok, it’s back. That was fun while it lasted.
That’s when you go to jaiku.com to satisfy your addiction.
I actually use it a lot more than twitter…
That’s a good one
At least it makes this post http://blog.kol...se-than-twitter kinda obsolete
OH NO TWITTER WAS DOWN. END OF WORLD.
Michael, you really need to check out http://twiddict.com again
I don’t miss those days anymore. Glad Twitter is back up!
It’s slightly ironic that I ended up here due to this post being tweeted
Hahaha… good to see they are going back to the old days
yay for fail.
I liked Twitter but now I don’t like Twitter, now I use me2day(http://me2day.net/)
I don’t understand why they don’t invest in better servers
no kidding. some load balanced front end web servers, some clustered (or hell, federated mysql database servers) and the problem is over.
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Launch affilliate services in ShoppingSite!!!
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Thank God the tragedy is over…for now
Saying Twitter is down is like saying the sun will come up in the east. It’s not really news.
Seems like it’s back down again. I can’t get to the site.
Word. I think the Fail Whale fell on their data center.
I’ll use this site to twitter. it has more followers:
“I am eating Soup”
And again …
Twitter is still down for me… tried 3 different internet connections and I get ‘page cannot be found’ for http://www.twitter.com, although their blog and help sites seem to work.
was up this morning and back down again…
Still down for me!
Uh oh! The site’s still down. Bummer, and I can’t even Tweet about Twitter being down since it’s down.
Yessir, as of 12:06pm eastern – it’s still down. The funny thing is that this is the kind of news I would tweet to my followers.
It’s down again…right at the end of a working day! How will I get through the last 9 minutes without telling people I can’t wait for 5.30 and hometime?!
Could you be a bigger dick? Really, now.
collective voices hushed for a moment across the internets…..
…no news!
time to change to laconi.ca or netppl.net and feed twitter automatically (if online)
I decided to make up a list of 10 things you can do when Twitter is down. Its a decent list, so check it out: http://globalge...witter-is-down/
Personally, I am kind of glad Twitter has gone down. It has given me time to catch up on other things and remember what times were like without Twitter.
My first outage..!
What’s nice is you can check out sites like http://www.istwitterbroken.com or isitdown.com to find out if Twitter is down or broken, or if it’s just you. These days, Twitter seems more to just be broken than down- istwitterbroken.com even tells you about when things are “sort of broken.”