Something Is Technically Wrong With Twitter

Robin Wauters

Robin Wauters is the European Editor of tech blog The Next Web and lead editor of Virtualization.com. He was a senior staff writer at TechCrunch until his departure in February 2012. Aside from his professional blogging activities, he’s an entrepreneur, event organizer, occasional board adviser and angel investor but most importantly an all-round startup champion. Wauters lives and works in... → Learn More

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

Hey Erick, I have a question for Jack Dorsey. What’s up with Twitter?

As I’m sure you’ve noticed, Twitter is down (for some users), so in true TechCrunch tradition we need to celebrate the downtime with a post. Sorry, did we say downtime?

Update: seems to be fixed, for me at least.

Twitter calls that an elevated error rate.

(It indeed appears to be only a subset of users having issues).

Fear not: our post about alternative things you can do when Twitter goes down is still up. As you can see above, former TechCruncher Laura Boychenko remembered it well.

Oh, and don’t forget to retweet this … never mind.

Company: Twitter
Website: twitter.com
Launch Date: March 21, 2006
Funding: $1.16B

Created in 2006, Twitter is a global real-time communications platform with 400 million monthly visitors to twitter.com, more than 200 million monthly active users around the world. We see a billion tweets every 2.5 days on every conceivable topic. World leaders, major athletes, star performers, news organizations and entertainment outlets are among the millions of active Twitter accounts through which users can truly get the pulse of the planet.

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