Twitter Down – what do we do now?
My fellow twitter users may have noticed that nobody in their stream has posted for over 2 hours. I did quick search round my friends streams and it seems that this problem is global.
It seems that @replies and search work, and you can see tweets if you visit individual pages, but the main stream is suffering a 2 hour delay.
Interestingly the @twitter account has no visible posts on the topic, and instead of the fail whale alerting us to the outage, everything appears fine, assuming you believe that nobody has posted for over 2 hours.
Anyway, I am posting this in case any of my friends are as confused as I was, just to confirm there is indeed a problem. Hopefully twitter will get on it (or at least admit there is a problem) soon.
In the meantime I guess we should all go outside for a walk, do our work, play hopscotch… or whatever else it was we did before we became addicted to tweeting our lives away.
Update:
The status page is displaying the following message:
Timeline delays this morning 1 hour ago
We are currently investigating a problem causing many users’ timelines to be delayed. We will update with status here shortly.
Doesn’t really explain the full scope of the issue, but at least it’s in hand.
I found the same problem. It may not be affecting everyone. See http://help.twitter.com/forums/31935/entries/49964?page=49#posts-134791.
I thought I heard a giant sucking noise this morning. It must have been the sound of several million people gasping in air at the same time.
I don’t know how we will survive without being able to read @juliansimpson & @sarajpin beating the snot out of each other in the Twitterverse.
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