Today’s failure was first reported around 11:00 a.m. ET, and Twitter staff have confirmed that its engineers are chasing the problem. The previous outage was blamed on a cascading bug that travelled through the company’s infrastructure clobbering everything in its path.
Twitter’s well-known “fail whale” had not made an appearance yet today. The site just posts a simple message:
Twitter is currently down for <%= reason %>.
We expect to be back in <%= deadline %>. For more information, check out Twitter Status. Thanks for your patience!
On Twitter’s status page:
Users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue.
This is not a good time for this to happen. The company is expecting a boost in traffic from its deal with NBC to provide sharing of news and other material from the Olympic games.
Paul Ausick
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