Users Report Twitter Outage

(CNET)  By CNET Staff Writer Caroline McCarthy

Holy cow. Is nothing on the Internet working these days? Facebook's acknowledged that a number of members have had account maintenance issues, and now Twitter has confirmed that "many" users are experiencing timeline delay problems.

Basically, the lowdown is that you can post tweets, and they'll publish, but that your timeline--the stream of updates from the Twitter accounts you follow--isn't bringing up any new tweets. For me, it looks like this started at around 8:00 a.m. PT.

Twitter, which has been prone to many an outage in its three-year history, says it is investigating the problem and will provide an update shortly.

[nirtana]

I WANT to hear updates about these outages. I am one of a multitude of affected users, who are experiencing disruption of their jobs/businesses, communication with family abroad (in Iraq), communication with family who are seriously ill and unable to effectively update loved ones in any other way. These are just a few examples being discussed in blogs. This is NOT just about bored kids playing games! It has been going on for over a week, and there has been very little coverage of this issue so far.

[metomjr]

Agree...who cares. I only clicked on this article to say stop reporting about Twitter.

[legacyabq]

Hmmm. So, a stupid useless self-indulgent chat/message service for kiddies and gen-x'ers who wont grow up goes out..for a few hours..and this is national news?
Just because we hear the stupid word "twitter" all the damned time, and just because it's "mod", does not mean that a: most people care one whit about it, or b: it's important news.

I wouldnt care if I never heard the word twitter or tweet or fail-whale ever again..or "Web 2.0' for that matter.

What an enormous waste of electricity..

[stuart-johns2]

I wonder if Sarah Palin is somehow connected to this. She has an enormous base of republican extremist support. Maybe the "up-stream" could'nt handle her base worshipping her as they do. LOL