After a day of missing avatars, lost Tweets, and vanishing DMs, Twitter is down for the count (at least for the next 30 minutes or so). The site has posted its ‘unscheduled maintenance’ image, featuring some frozen yogurt and a caterpillar in lieu of the infamous Fail Whale (which now seems to be reserved for temporary glitches). And the status blog now says that the site will be down for an hour or so (which began at 5:45 PM PST).
Twitter was notorious early last year for its rare bouts of uptime, though the service has performed admirably since last summer despite incredible growth. Now that the service is down this evening, it gives users the perfect opportunity to try out the new FriendFeed beta.
Update 6:28 PM PST: And they’re back after less than 45 minutes of downtime. Not too shabby.
My Tweets were going missing all day yesterday and today, I got an email reply to a customer service ticket that I created for this issue, and they said they are working hard towards fixing everything. With the huge recent growth, things sometimes get bogged down. I do not mind however, as I know that it does take a lot of hard work to keep it running smoothly.
well you are not alone , but we still love twitter !
Yes some of my tweets were missing, but I could still search for other people’s tweets on yauba which was more important
http://www.yaub...p;x=24&y=18
oh no! you mean I DONT get to know your political thoughts in 144 characters or less?!! SHOOT ME IN THE FACE!
I like the Fail Ale better: http://www.img.ly/M.
hell yeah the site been buggy all day.
background images disappearing , slow site
where did the vc money go?
In nation wide advertisements….
“where did the vc money go?”
That’s the question of the decade my friend, and not just for Twitter.
Actually, I kind of like to see it take a break every once in awhile now days. It’s so addicting!
It’s back, but it was nice while it lasted
I found the timing to be interesting with the big HIMMS healthcare IT meeting going on in Chicago, been lots of tweets there.
Nobody seems to really get that upset though as what can really be lost in 141 characters, however, if it goes beyond that and you lose your connections, well that’s another issue. Went through that in the early days, but has not happened again.
I think Google is about to announce the Twitter acquisition. This “downtime” is strategic, created on purpose, so they can say later that Google will help Twitter the same way it did with Youtube.
First time I’ve seen the frozen yogurt screen, LOL. Took a screen shot of it to share on twitter, but twitpic was down, too.
http://i.friend...97a88e1c7b95595
Twitter back up
ahhh yes, the good ole days when twitter working was something strange and down time was the norm… don’t know about the caterpillar and the ice cream though
Ah man. This isn’t the twitter I remember. I didn’t even get to post a comment before they came back up.
ohh that’s the reason I hope it will fix as soon as posible
How sad is it that I miss the fail whale?
Something weird: While the rest of Twitter was down, Twitter’s Search and API, stayed up. Huh.
Not too shabby??? They have 55m in funding and an incredibly simple system, there is no excuse for these long outages, pathetic!
amateur hour over there
And the fail whale is back again. Pretty shabby.
i took the time to look over friendfeed… looks like twitter’s cousin mary!
All twitter, all the time
It’s been glitchy for some time now, with posts disappearing and counters being out of sync as a result. When you have thousand of tweets, it is harder to notice that some of your updates vanish forever, although they still appear in the search.
The end is near.
I proclaim the release of all Social Notworking captives!
Haydays, and then back to life and business. Please! Oh please, turn it off. Make it end. Make the chatter stop! When publishing is this easy, it is too idiotic!! What happened to webmasters?
Repent and turn away!
It wasn’t working for me either. However, I was able to keep my day going with http://www.boilingpage.com, one of the best Twitter applications, that shows the hottest pages on the web based on how popular they are in Twitter. Wonder how they were able to get the real-time contents from twitter even when the twitter is down. Maybe, they have a partnership deal with them. Whatever, http://www.boilingpage.com rocks. Many interesting websites crop up in their results pages.
I wonder if it load related. You’d think there was something non-nerdy going on like a basketball game or something.
The fail whale is for 500 errors, when the app fails, the ice cream and worm are for when the site has been taken offline. Both have been around for a very long time folks.
the world didn’t end….did it?
the Whales not gonna be happy…. being upstaged by a cone and a catapillar
Maybe they should sell and buy some REAL servers, or wait, actually charge money and create a REAL business model…
http://www.ProTwit.com
maybe this will cause everyone to leave and go to fluttr?
They got too big, too fast.
Will Twitter Go the Way of Z. Cavaricci?
http://tinyurl.com/cozlbb
Some of my Tweets are also missed.
I don’t see how twitter going down is news anymore. Techcrunch needs to move on and stop reporting every time this website goes down.
Yup, it’s been acting up for a few days now. Has anyone experience any problems posting from TwitterBar? Please email me at diego@blog364.com and let me know!
Thx.
Slow day at TechCrunch eh?
wake up Kincaid: that’s ice-cream, not frozen yoghert. I thought you checked your facts at TechCrunch?