Twitter’s Non-Failwhale Fail
By Harry McCracken | Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 9:52 am
When something’s awry with Twitter, we’re used to seeing the Failwhale show up to relay the bad news. At the moment, though, troubles of a more subtle sort appear to be afflicting the site. Peter Kafka of All Things Digital is reporting on current problems with users’ Twitter timelines, and they certainly seem to be affecting my account: I follow more than 1250 people, so I’m usually pelted with tweets more or less continuously, but the site is claiming that nobody I follow has had anything to say in more than two hours:
Checking again, I see that tweets are coming in–just very, very slowly. Twitter’s status page acknowledges the issue and says they’re working on it.
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Smugmug Crashes | CloudAve Says:
October 8th, 2009 at 10:56 am[…] but he could have written it today…)Related articles:Twitter Down, Again, Just Like the Old DaysTwitter’s Non-Failwhale FailSimultaneous Downtime for SmugMug and Twitter(Cross-posted @ TechWag)Posted Under : General Tags […]
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Twitter bald auf Deutsch? Says:
October 8th, 2009 at 10:51 pm[…] dem Non-Failwhale-Fail gestern Abend wartet Twitter heute mit einer längst überfälligen Ankündigung […]
October 8th, 2009 at 10:31 am
The primary cause of problems is solutions. That might be going on here, given the outage recovery a few hours before the timeline problem. I’m certainly seeing it in my very quiet window.