Twitter downtime…
May 15th, 2008 by admin
The popular free social networking and micro-blogging service twitter seems to be having massive problems this evening. With the majority of the site inaccessible and the server just not responding, users are speculating that it could be overload from the China earthquake. Twitter has told users this;
“Part of our caching service required an unscheduled restart. That means a slow rebuilding of data. You may notice some of the normal browsing related features (such as pagination) are missing while we repopulate the caching service. This is so we can get it done quicker.”
Whilst we love Twitter ourselves, one has to ask why they experience frequent problems. In January they announced they had “finished a major infrastructure project”, “which we’ve been working on for months and that we think is going to help a lot” however it is hard to see how this work has paid off…
Source: Twitter