Just as users and the entire Twitter developer ecosystem was getting back on its feet after last week’s multi-day outage, Twitter goes down again.
The outage last week, which was caused by a DDOS attack, started at around 6 am California time on Friday and went through the weekend. And even when Twitter had periodic uptime, third party apps were still shut down.
As usual, we provide a handy list of things to do while fretting about Twitter. Of course, you could choose to work, since it is the middle of a business day, but let’s not go crazy just yet.
Update: It’s back! Third party apps are still down, though. They always take the hard hit. And Twitter is calling this an “attack” – “Update (12:17p): We’re back up and analyzing the traffic data to determine the nature of this attack.”
It took you a while to get the post up!!!
I actually had to go to Twitter.com to see if it was down!
And yet, somehow, the world moved on…
With Twitter down, you now have some time Michael, to play Good Nazi, Bad Nazi again. Why don’t you head over to Facebook and see what the skinheads are up to these days? We are in drastic need of an update on your censorship demands.
If the song is any indication, perhaps Michael’s been busy getting a little “Careington” by MG Siegler.
yeah doing work the whole day and didn’t even know about this until now catching up on news. meh.
I’m just waiting for someone to install a copy of laconica on some real servers with real clustering and load balancing, let users import their accounts, and be done with it.
Yawn….I love TC but tell me something new.
I wasn’t sure how long it was going to take Tech Crunch to get this up. The greatest problem with Twitter being down is that you can’t even Tweet about it. Maybe there’s something to be said for Face to Face Tweet Ups.
Seems to be back up.
Seems to be back up.
Yes, it’s up for me also.
They may as well make status.twitter.com redirect to here. We don’t need TC to tell us the service is down as the majority, if not all find out first hand.
It was me. I broke it. Did Ev’s wife @sara deliver yet? Perhaps that’s what caused the outage?
Thank you, but please do a better job next time. DDOS to the rescue.
Gotta start handling this better, Twitter! Get on the ball guys!
been on and off for me here in the UK for the past couple of days.
Oh why oh why won’t Twitter die. Won’t someone let it die.
Despite reading many articles on why Twitter is good I search through it and all I read is crap. Even interesting people tweet crap.
It’s like Christmas, you just need to believe.
Once the frenzied hype dies down and its investors start expecting a return on the $55 million they sunk into it, watch out!
Ya know, I don’t know which is the higher bandwidth user…. Twitter or the reports that twitter is down. Either way, they’re both a waste of bandwidth.
Hey Mike – Any way you can ask the Twitter guys (maybe an interview) if they have begun tracking how these crashes/attacks/#fails affect user interaction?
i.e, Twitter is great, but at what point do they begin worrying about user drop-off? (outside of the obvious concerns they have about security)
Yay don’t forget to archive your tweets with http://tweetbackup.com
It’s down again. I say it’s a BAD idea to use a Apple MagSafe power cords on the Twitter Servers. One trip and the servers get unplugged. Doh!
Should have proof read that… damn! Hopefully my bad grammar doesn’t spoil the comedy.
It didn’t but it will probably attract (magnets, get it?) comments like: “If you can’t spell don’t comment” or “Is this supposed to be English”.
It may also generate some: “Dude, servers don’t use MagSafe, DUH! Noob *replaces glasses* “.
As with last week’s DDoS attacks, we’ve got your back when Twitter is down (not to mention Facebook and a few other services). http://downrightnow.com/twitter
Our website also went down. This attack affected other company websites, hosted at Verio/NTT in the SF Bay Area. Apparently this was a different type of attack aimed at backbone network services at Verio. We are investigating from our location as well.
Another day, another creative and thought-proving TechCrunch post about a Twitter outage.
lol funny story……… Came home from work tonight to find out I’m being sued by Twitter
So not only are Twitter fighting russian hackers they are now fighting their own third party developer community who built applications around their public API.
http://www.MyTwitterButler.com/I%27m_Being_Sued/
I think Twitter is forgetting what made them so popular in the first place – third party application developers who built apps to add value to the twittersphere in the first place.
I have to admit, not sure why I am so tolerant of a service that is so flaky. Set expectations so low that what’s an outage here and there and everywhere.