Twitter is down
I thought it might've just been me at first since I normally use Twitter to confirm if X is down for everyone else. It doesn't help that their status page shows:
> All Systems Operational
It says "Twitter is taking too long to load" on mobile right now. But actually it always says that, 100% of the time, when I arrive at twitter.com on my Android phone. Yes it is down but it is always down. On mobile at least.
And this news is HN worthy?
It could become one, depending on why twitter is down or how long it stays down.
But yeah, nothing much to say or show for now.
Right, I would love to read such posts with the forensics on what happened. But just 3-word phrase titled "posts" with zero-content should be discouraged from floating to the HN front-page.. otherwise this would be just another "reddit".
Twitter being down (widespread) for even a minute seems pretty huge imo.
If only because twitter is usually where one turns once an outage is reported on HN.
Karma.
I thought Twitter was still up as my feed was loading. Looks like it's restricted to viewing user profiles. Maybe there will be a brief uptick in productivity during the outage :).
User profiles _sometimes_ load, indeed. Edit: and tweeting actually works
The web client is down here in Ontario but my rainbowstream feed is still going. @AP tweeted a minute ago about Morocco's 2026 world cup bid.
Any chance it is some domino effect from today's Russian carpetban? Twitter is integrated in their law enforcement intercept there.
Getting this page on login:
"Something is technically wrong. Thanks for noticing—we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon."
Wow, I haven't seen this repost since like 2009
All fine according to https://status.twitterstat.us
Seems like this "meme" comes from twitter HQ after all https://media.giphy.com/media/z9AUvhAEiXOqA/giphy.gif
interesting outage map: http://downdetector.com/status/twitter/map/
Interesting how? All that is showing is people who are awake (timezone differences and all) and aware of downdetector.com. The areas without blotches doesn't mean Twitter is up - just that not enough people have used downdetector to test Twitter in that region.
Right, cool. Still find it interesting.
In the map I see areas marked with red on Japan, London, Barcelona, New York, and 2 pink-ish locations in the USA.
It was down for 5 minutes, came back for 5 minutes, is now down again for me (website and iOS app, Munich, Germany)
Down for me. Haven't seen the failwhale in a while, it's like being transported back in time!
Down for me as well, Austin, TX.
Down for me as well, Bristol UK
Down here. Hardly news considering it's Twitter :P
Website is down, but Twitterific is working fine!
It's intermittent here / Singapore.
Seems to be back for good this time
Down here / Bangalore, India
its up again for me in Bonn, Germany
A sigh of relief as Trump cannot tweet.
Well, sadly, he can. Loading profiles sometimes works, and posting tweets works too: https://twitter.com/_kLabz_/status/986248991133392896 (don't mind the account or the tweet itself, I'm not after any exposure)
Believe me - that's great!
Sad!