Well that didn’t take long. Over the past 24 hours, Twitter has been steadily rolling out its new Lists feature to a bunch of new users. Yesterday, about 25% of Twitter saw them, today, it’s much higher. Or it was. Shortly, Lists will temporarily go offline for everyone, product lead Nick Kallen has just tweeted out.
Don’t worry, the lists you just spent hours curating are not being deleted, but your access to them is being disabled for a bit. The reason is that there are already performance issues cropping up, so Twitter is taking “30 minutes or so” to investigate, as Kallen puts it.
This is not good timing for Listorious, which just a few minutes ago rolled out its site based around Lists since it felt enough people finally had access to the feature.
The reason Twitter has been slowly rolling Lists out rather than giving it to everyone at once is so they could stress test it. Well, here’s that stress. Still, I suppose this intentional downtime is preferable to Lists simply not working when they look like they should be. Also, feature downtime is much better than overall Twitter downtime.
Update: And they’re back, and opening it to even more users now. Over 50% of users should now see it, according to Kallen, who also explained that during the downtime they learned that Lists were not the cause of the issue.
Already?!
Well, guess we’ll just have to wait it out at http://www.anonboard.com
Phew! I thought I lost my lists. Was a pain creating them in the first place and was really pissed when they disappeared a while ago!
I am not doing anything with mine until the beta is over. This probably won’t be the last downtime for the feature until they are done working out all the kinks.
been using lists for a few weeks now, and man are they buggy.. sometimes i end up having to add someone to the list 10 times for it to stick.
Very unreliable
The list feature is still a beta, what do you expect? Get a clue people.
my lists still up !
Wow, i feel privileged…i’ve got lists already…I can see the potential for abuse, but it is pretty slick.
One of the reasons I joined Twitter late in the game is due to the complete fire hose of streaming tweets with no organization.
The new list feature is what I was hoping for and now that it is here I’m willing to wait a bit until the work out the kinks.
I realize you can use 3rd party clients like TweetDeck to organize into ‘columns’ but Twitter really should have this as a core feature and now it does thankfully.
for a company that raised over 155 million they are bad. Ive seen kids start bedroom companies that are more reliable.
They really should invest in getting good people to build their company.
Boy, you people really don’t understand what beta means do you?
We kind of do but would be great if you could confirm. Is it a sorry excuse for bad implementation?
When you have millions of users you better learn to do a closed beta and release features only when fully baked.
You are such a whinny brat siegler. It’s a frigging test and it was down for, what, an hour?
I dig the list, it was a pain to add ppl at first but it’s been working great for a week now for me.
When is this site going to change its name to TwitterCrunch?
“All Twitter, all the time… TwitterCrunch”
(My $10k marketing consulting bill will be in the mail…)
Twitter just can’t seem to stay online.
MG continues the MG legacy: anything, as long as it involves twitter
Im following over 40k people this will be a good way to organize people I really want to follow!
i don’t understand all the Siegler bashing. he was just bringing you updated happenings of lists. jeeeez.