We’d have never thought breaking the news of Twitter co-founder and ex-CEO Jack Dorsey joining Ustream’s board of advisors would have that much of an effect on the micro-sharing service. As of 11:19 AM CET, Twitter is down for the count, which brings back a lot of memories here at TechCrunch.
I hate to pimp services I was involved in myself, but since it’s a non-commercial, fun project: Twiddict should be able to queue up your tweets for when Twitter comes back again (yes, it asks for your user name and password and no, we won’t do anything wrong with it).
Update: half an hour of downtime now, Twitter Status is silent. I’m getting my Fail Whale T-shirt.
Update 2: the error image (see below) switched to a bogus ‘database maintenance’ claim, with a message saying they’ll back in 30 minutes.
Update 3: it’s back (12:08 AM CET). Nearly an hour without tweeting; go catch up now.
Update 4: this update on the Twitter Status blog says it was a database problem and the site was down for about an hour indeed.
First!
That was a joke…honestly
Just wanted to see what it felt like to be a moron.
and the second time?
Confirmation.
Can someone explain to me why it is so hard to keep the twitter service up and running especially after they have several MILLIONS OF DOLLARS in funding?
It really cannot be THAT hard.
Anjali Sen
When did they replace the whale?!
i miss the fail whale too
I originally got a title bar saying “Over capacity” – now seems to say just “Error”
So frustrating – the only thing you can’t tweet is that Twitter has gone down. Thanks Techcrunch, you’ve filled a hole!
phew, thought i’d been banned for a second there as theres no mention of it on: http://status.twitter.com/
I particularly like the faux green light on the status page header.
twitter is back up
btw: http://twitter..../garethstephens =)
Can I post my tweets here instead?
Read the post
TwitterFox also queued up failed tweets, which proved to be embarrassing, and required some rapid deletions when it came up again.
Thanks Robin for the loan of your comment board during this difficult half hour.
For information, the twitter api stopped working a bit later, at 11:52 CET exactly.
Hopefully you can still browse through the latest tweets that were sent before the breakdown on http://tweetag.com
(most discussed topics where bushfires, twestival, google, iphone, …)
Twitter is back
Twitter is back in to business
Twitter is back since 12:09:15 CET so exactly 17mn (from the twitter API perspective).
Twitter is back in to business.
Maybe it’s forced respite from our addictions. Can’t monetize that, however, that doesn’t work.
its sad to hear
Now, it’s ok. I am happy!
if twitter is going to charge business (http://www.blog...business-users/) … they will have to sort this down time out. companies are only going to pay if there is a guarantee of uptime and availability. can’t really complain when it is free but when it is paid, that is a different thing.
i must admit that it wasn’t as much as it used to and I miss the whale.
Captain obvious strikes again
Is it really worht it’s own news topic on “site x down”?
Sometimes. Always when it’s Twitter.
SPoF – Single Point of Failure
Sephiroth – Villain from Final Fantasy
“yes, it asks for your user name and password and no, we won’t do anything wrong with it”
Just *asking* is wrong. Techies may well know what the score is, but you’re teaching the non-techies that giving out a username and password to a third party is normal.
Good to know that Twitter is back. I missed sending some twitts!
at least they place cool funny pictures when the site is down
Their artwork is the best thing about the entire service.
THANK GOD
Gotta comment – WHAT IS IT WITH TECHCRUNCH AND TWITTER??!?!?!? Come on stop posting news items about this service all the time it’s totally mad and starting to get oh so boring.
Despite it’s growing traffic, why does twitter go down occasionally? Does anyone actually know?
Agree about the cool down pictures, they should incorporate them somehow in the twitter logo “Google” style.
ROR
Upcoming Schedule of TechCrunch coverage of Twitter:
Monday: Twitter Post about Possible Biz Model Comments: Exact same as yesterday
Tuesday: Twitter Post about new Twitter Apps Comments: Exact same as yesterday
Wednesday: Twitter Crashes Post
Comments: Exact same as yesterday
Thursday: Twitter Crashes Post with Screengrabs!
Comments: Exact same as yesterday
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Where did you get this information? I knew there were leaks!
Sorry, but $28 is a pricing FAIL on those t-shirts.
I don’t understand why they can’t beef up a little to meet their demand. They are only worth $500M. All the restrictions and slow responses should be unnecessary. Who wouldn’t give their left *** to be in their shoes.
Maybe it was down due to the brilliant mosaic app from @walter
http://sxoop.co...itter/mosaic.pl
Maybe they should use something like Kaazing – http://www.kaazing.com ? Seems like a potential solution to their problems
Well thank you for the confirmation for a second there I was thinking that I had something wrong with my network but I did the smart thing and checked TechCrunch!