Twitter suffers large outage on web and mobile

[MowCowWhoHow III]

Source: The Guardian

Twitter was unavailable for users worldwide on Tuesday morning, with the site apparently suffering a total outage followed by serious access problems lasting over an hour.

Access to the service began failing over the web, mobile and its API (application programming interface, the system that applications use to speak to the Twitter service) at 8:20am GMT, with error messages warning the network is both “over capacity” and suffering an “internal error”. By 10:00am, the majority of the service had returned to some semblance of normality, with the company’s image handling service and home timelines still suffering.

Twitter’s own status board updated at 9:00, confirming the outage, and the company’s developer-facing monitoring confirmed that four of the five public APIs were down, suffering a “service disruption”. At 8:47, the search API was upgraded to “performance issues”. By 8:55am, a second API was upgraded to “performance issues”, and some users were able to sporadically access the service. But the site’s status yo-yoed, and several services were still reported as down more than two hours after the outage began.

The company initially confirmed the outage by, somehow, tweeting, from its @support account. We were unable to see the tweet, because Twitter was down. Twitter emailed the text of the tweet to the Guardian, which read: “Some users are currently experiencing problems accessing Twitter. We are aware of the issue and are working towards a resolution.”

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/19/twitter-down-over-web-and-mobile

[Hissyspit]

1. I noticed that!

[nitpicker]

2. Link to BBC

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35351154

[rjsquirrel]

3. Donald Trump

was unable to respond.


Did I ever say how much I despise Twitter? A huge factor in dumbing down and coarsening culture and politics, in my view. I wish they'd go under and the financials suggest they will.

[MowCowWhoHow III]

4. I find it very useful for news personally.

[YvonneCa]

7. I agree. I use it for news and...

...it is invaluable. I have noticed that most people who don't like Twitter don't really know how to utilize the service it provides.

[Blue_Tires]

8. I just like telling millions of people on Twitter how wrong they are

on a daily basis

[rjsquirrel]

10. Lol

I know how to use it. It's just full of 140 character gumdrops of racism and idiocy.

So condescending! How to use it, lol.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

6. You are in the minority. Most people either like it, or are nonplused. But DESPISE?

[rjsquirrel]

11. Despise

Look at what Trump is able to do with it.

It's a reduction of political discourse to sound bites taken to an extreme.

And plenty of people agree with me. Did you know Twitter is losing money hand over fist?

Two years and it's gone like MySPACE.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

13. Well, keep up your hatred then. It's not good for you though...

[YvonneCa]

12. I know. I watch CSpan, too...

...

[Plucketeer]

9. I agree.

Like I don't waste enough time staring at screens all day. And why should I be mocked for not learning the acronym speak that Twitter fuels? I know English and I can spell the words. I also know how to use a keyboard as good as anyone I know. I apologize if whole words encumber your day.