So, I’m a late riser most days (I like to go to bed late, real late). And today when I awoke, I thought it was a Vanilla Sky dream situation — but rather than Tom Cruise being the last person on Earth, I thought I was. You see, like most mornings, the first thing I check is Twitter. The problem this morning is that the most recent tweet was from 3 hours ago.
And that’s still the case. Twitter’s timeline has been frozen for hours sending users no new tweets. Most of its APIs are frozen, meaning apps like Tweetie aren’t working. Twitter is looking into it, but still seems to have no idea what is going on. But some smart users have figured out a workaround, sort of.
While Twitter may be frozen, you can still send tweets and the service receives them. And while no one can see them in the main stream, Twitter search is still working. So, if you happen to use a service like Brizzly with groups (which use the Search API), you can see your followers most recent tweets.
While Brizzly isn’t completely open to the public yet, plenty of users still have invites to give out so ask around.
Or if you don’t feel like going out of your way for a work around. As always, we recommend the list of 15 alternative things to do.
I shouldn’t have to remind anyone that situations like this has happened before, and back then it also backed up the service for several hours. But the difference now is that Twitter is several times the size of what it was back then in terms of both manpower and funding.
Update: It looks like FriendFeed is receiving a steady stream of updates as well. There are much less tweets than normal coming in, but that’s probably because everyone assumes Twitter is totally down.
Update 2: And the issue finally looks fixed now.
You can also use http://mixtweet.com. Our updates are from Twitter’s stream services which don’t seem to have been affected.
If you log in and create a group (aka mix) of the people you want updates from, their updates will stream in real-time.
All that money and they still can’t keep the service up. Unbelievable.
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+155 Million
Unbelievable? Expected really. Twitter goes down and MG thinks the world has come to an end, I am not surprised. If only the TC post about twitter went down with the service, life would be better. Less twitter = better world, give me a peace prize, bitch!
I’m still receiving all incoming Tweets via FriendFeed. They are receiving them from Twitter although I follow a fraction of the people there I follow on Twitter.
Every time there’s a problem with Twitter, the first information is posted in the Twitter Room at FriendFeed. It can take hours before it is noted at Twitter’s Status page.
yep added that in there too. i thought it wasn’t working fully because so many people are tweeting less, but it appears to be.
We also reported the disruption over at downrightnow long before Twitter’s announcement. You can stop by http://downrigh...now.com/twitter to report an issue and check the latest status.
downrightnow uses crowdsourcing and automatic monitoring of official announcements to detect issues at Twitter, Gmail, Facebook and other major web services.
Or another option when twitter goes down…turn off your computer go outside breath the fresh air and stop tweeting useless drivel to everyone
yep, check the 15 step list
twitter is an excellent resource if it was used for traffic, and if i didnt have facebook i would use it for the bands i like
CHad is write. Twitter is just waste of time and cyberspace.
for a moment i felt as if i am the last person left on the planet… lol
I was wondering why I wasn’t getting updates. Good example of becoming too tied up with technology, though.
Those of you who use TuneIn can access your timelines from your channel.
Can’t we live without twitter for 3 hours? What is happening?
Why so much hype?
why so serious?
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Isn’t this perhaps a symptom of a larger program: That there’s simply too many tweets? No one seems to have a good way of managing them all. Heck, my feed was frozen for 3 hours and I STILL didn’t get to check them all, and they weren’t even moving.
they need to decentralize.
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This is precisely why buying oneforty.com would be stupid. Twitter has a LOT of work to do to solve the problems it actually has. The last thing they need to do is distract themselves with non core tasks like trying to add an app store.
Posts to Twitter show up on facebook as well.
yeah but good luck posting *from* facebook
Or forget going to twitter search at all and just use http://www.tweetalarm.com to alert you when someone tweets about your company, products or interests…like Google Alerts for Twitter
Speaking of Vanilla Sky… I’ve never seen the movie, but the title song written by Paul McCartney is stupendous.
it is pretty good.
Twitter links is working: http://bit.ly/zDSrB
If you want a twitter that works with really cool features –> try Whispurr.com
It’s new! You can manage public, private and group micro messages for 300 chars instead of 140.
Sorry, but my RSS Reader first displayed me the post about Digg with the picture of Top Gun and Maverick. Is it Tom Cruise birthday ? I hope that nothing serious has happened to him ?
Are twitter outages still passing for news?