Twitter’s having a rough day. It was down for nearly an hour earlier today, and now, many users are complaining that their Avatars have been replaced by an egg, the Avatar given to newcomers who have not yet uploaded their own picture.
Naturally, users are tweeting in droves complaining, trying to find out if they are showing up as an egg to their friends and making terrible egg-puns. Here’s my favorite so far:
Hey. I just met you. And this is crazy. But am I an egg? #TwitterHashtagsBaby
— Satoshi Hojo (@SatoshiHojo_) July 26, 2012
I’ve reached out to Twitter for comment and I’ll keep you posted.
Update: Twitter has released a statement via their blog about the outage, but still no word on the Avatar problem.
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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