Twitter Outage, All Goes Quiet
Twitter Suffers Major Outage A Week From Christmas
The world’s most popular microblogging platform Twitter suffered a major outage Thursday night US time, Friday everywhere else.
At the time of writing (5:15pm AEDT Friday, 10:15pm USPDT Thursday) Twitter remains uncontactable both via the web interface, and the API used for third party clients.
The outage is a rarity in recent times for Twitter, who has mostly overcome a series of outages in its early days to provide a highly reliable platform for global communication.
The Twitter status blog is down also at the time of writing, so we have no way of confirming a particular issue, although the downforeveryoneorjustme.com site confirms that Twitter is down in the United States as well.
It's funny how Twitter can become so central to the internet experience, it feels and looks strange to see the site down along with all third party apps.
Amuses me somewhat that news site rush to pick this news up, that an outage on one website can be such big news - but it is.
I'll fancy there are a lots of frustrated people across Thailand hitting the reload button this afternoon.
We all know that, when Twitter is down, the smart kids head over to FriendFeed, unless like me they forget their password - FAIL.
