Twitter goes down, and then rebounds - ZDNet ~ Electronic Gadgets

Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Twitter goes down, and then rebounds - ZDNet

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Summary: Twitter went down Tuesday afternoon for almost an hour. Error messages said the site was down for maintenance.

Well, that was annoying. Twitter, the popular short conversation social network site, went down at approximately 2 PM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on March 11th. By 3 pm, the service seemed, for the most part, to be back up.

While early error messages asserted that the site was down for maintenance that could not have been the case in the middle of a business day. There has been some speculation that the problem was caused by a change earlier in the day on the Twitter client from naming the"Connect" tab to "Notifications." At this time, we really don't know what caused the service to crash.

We do know that by 2:30 PM EDT, Twitter acknowledged that

This message hasn't been updated. Never-the-less, users around the world are now reporting that Twitter seems to be working again. However, some services still seem to be in trouble. For example, there continue to be reports that user profiles can't be reached.

Additionally, there are reports that some third-party applications, such as some third party clients, such as Hootsuite and Twitterfall, are still having trouble accessing the service.

Twitter ($TWTR) on the New York Stock Exchange in mid-afternoon trading dipped by 1 percent, but recovered following the site's return.

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