“If a person says Twitter is down, when Twitter is not down, and then Twitter goes down, will everybody believe the person that said that Twitter was down?”
I think that Twitter's logic is that as long as you can post tweets via the web interface, Twitter is up. Now I'm just sitting here and waiting to see what they remove next. - possible248
We need percentages for upness or downness. Without IM, replies, public timeline, or archives, and with the API capped at 10/hour, let's say that it was 20% up. - Morton Fox
"severely impacted" might be an understatement... - Robert Kuhlmann
Seems like they went down the last time a database died. We need some redundancy here. - Voyagerfan5761
Twitter Lost a Database = Twitter Lost some Users - Jason Kaneshiro
I wonder if Jason's comment is true.. I'll be the first to say that the downtime w/ twitter has been outrageous lately and to be honest I have been finding myself Plurking a lot more than I ever expected to.... but even with all that said are people really going to *leave* twitter? I have a fairly robust social network there which I can't afford to give up and that I don't see migrating anywhere else anytime soon.. What are other peoples thoughts? - Nicholas Kreidberg
Well they lost me today...so I guess that's 1 - Bwana McCall
I don't plan to leave. I started using Gmail intensively a couple years ago and it would go down pretty regularly for brief periods (usually no more than 15-30 minutes). Of course, those outages were generally at least a month apart, but I got irritated just the same when it was inaccessible. Yet I kept coming back, and now I haven't had an outage in months. Twitter is the same thing; I find it quite useful and fun, so I'm willing to endure a bit of downtime (even though I may complain loudly and vigorously when it fails). - Voyagerfan5761
Kevin. These were so funny i had to share them on a blog post at facereviews.com. i could not stop laughing through my tears. not good for twitter. the ironic thing is twitter is down and in "quiet time" as i write this. uuuggghh - Rodney Rumford
Kevin, Can I use your pictures to create a slideshow? - Oliver Ding
I wonder if this was the XMPP Twhirl in testing that brought down Twitter :) :) - Bwana McCall
From the dev list: "Due to abusive behavior we've been forced to temporarily disable our Jabber/XMPP services. PubSub subscriptions, tweet deliver, updating, tracking, and all other Jabber features will be unavailable until further notice. We'll attempt to resolve this as soon as possible. Apologies for the inconvenience." - Andrew Badera
Update from Alex Payne (al3x): We saw clients performing bulk actions against our system starting earlier today. Following thousands of users, that sort of thing. - Andrew Badera
Further:Would appreciate not speculating on something like this.
Not only have we not pushed the new version of Twhirl to many folks
but we have also been very careful in our testing and have been in
contact with Al3x about it.
Twhirl is currently on *receiving* tweets via XMPP.
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bear - Andrew Badera
well, 7000 Twitter friends...one can't help but speculate. I have no proof but come on man.. I'm not trying to make them look bad, but it seems pretty plausible - Bwana McCall
