Twitter acting funky again

Posted on 08 October 2009 by


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Twitter, the social networking site which allows individuals to update their followers with short 140 characters messages on what they’re up to seems to be experiencing some sort of outage.

Many users across Twitter are reporting their Twitter feeds not being updated over the last few hours.  I’m seeing all my own tweets (messages) post to my time line but none of the tweets from the people I’m following appear.

Tweets are getting posted to the Twitter servers though.  Just check out the time line of one of the people you follow and you’ll see their recent tweets, they just don’t show in your personal time line.  The problem seems to be related to followers.  I’ve read a few reports of people seeing their list of followers disappear and then come back and same for the list of people they’re following.

Let’s hope Twitter hasn’t fallen victim to another DOS attack and that this is just a temporary glitch.

UPDATE:  The phrase “Twitter is Frozen” is number 2 on the list of trends.  Twitter says The Twitter status blog has been updated to reflect a known issue with time line delays.

UPDATE:  Twitter is back.   All is right in the world again.

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  • http://www.geardiary.com Carly Z

    You know, twitter’s constant outages could be a PR plan. People are either on Twitter, or everyone is talking about how you CAN’T be on twitter. Brilliant.

    Also, either they are marketing fail whale pj’s or my friend’s son just coincidentally has pj’s that I swear look just like the fail whale.

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