Global Mayday….Twitter down!
Twitter has been out of service since early morning PST, which means only half the breakfast for geeks and internet junkies like me.
Globally, Twitter has been down for more than a couple of hours as of writing of this post and it seems you may be getting ‘the whale’ for another sometime.
A note on the Twitter Status blog reads
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“We are experiencing site-wide availability issues due to scheduled maintenance. We’re currently working to address the issues. We’ll update with more information as it is available.”
“Update: We’re currently experiencing site availability issues resulting from the failed enhancement of a new approach to timeline caching. Our infrastructure and operations engineers are currently working to resolve this. We’ll update you soon with an ETA.”
The outage was caused during a slick new feature being added, which supports geolocation. With it, you can tag your tweets to a specific place you’re at, or check-in from Foursquare and Gowalla, nothing we haven’t already been doing thanks to 3rd party clients.
The site may experience hiccups for upto 5 hours, and its a good time to catch up on your real-life friends on facebook, linkedin or wherever you can browse to. We’ll have the updates as they come from Twitter.
Update: 10:17 PM PDT: Users may temporarily experience missing tweets from their timelines. They will be restored shortly.
Update: 11:51 PM PDT: We’re recovering from the site outage. Remember, users may temporarily experience missing or duplicate tweets from their timelines. Normal timelines will be restored shortly.
Twitter is slowly coming out of the outage and the internet globe seems to be moving again.
Share your comments on the outage below.