Twitter struggling?

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Twitter has been down for more than 30 minutes now. Basically since I finished writing that last post about why we should consider Google Buzz again.

Seems that the World Cup traffic has been hammering Twitter.

I sure wish Twitter would get a handle on its scaling problems. Did no one see that an event like this would get everyone to Tweet?

UPDATE: Twitter has posted that they are having sitewide issues. Still is down, now has been down for more than an hour.

UPDATE2: as of 3:20 a.m. Pacific Time I’m able to get to Twitter again.

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14 thoughts on “Twitter struggling?”

  1. Do you think its because of the World Cup? We passed through 5 games in the last 2 days without any problem. And now, morning in South Africa, no games has started yet, and Twitter goes down? No, I think it's some technical issue, and not for the WC

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  5. I am getting twitter whale again and again and sometimes i can enter.generally twitter has such big traffic that they should capitalize it and have enough money to handle traffic but they are too lazy and too arrogant – as you can see from the example of releasing their own twitter client and thus totally damaging 3rd party developers…

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  6. Was getting an overloaded whale at 7 am PST. Separately, but Robert – is Twitter making a big mistake? It seems like the only way to see trending topics is to sign-out. Is that correct? Seems like they're missing a big opportunity to be sticky by hiding this info.

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  8. Seems that Twitter wants to tell us to reconsider Google Buzz, Robert :). I think they should check that problem or else it can be part of what will bring them down one day. Just an advice from an 18 year old :).

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  13. Yes Andrea, I am completely agreed with you.There can be technical faults for anybody.Nothing is perfect in this world.I do not agree with that saying that it was due to the world cup..

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  14. What I'm worried about is that in 3 years Twitter still haven't solved this problem. I can understand that the traffic volumes are a million times more than 3 years ago, but also this morning we had a lot of outage time. I really hope for a really good service, such as Twitter is, to solve this asap

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