Twitter Out Yet Again

You would think with Twitter’s growth that these outages would be a thing of the past.

Twitter is currently experiencing a widespread service outage that appears to be intermittent, according to our checks with the web client, third-party apps and website service status checking tools. Other TC staff are able to access the service on and off every few minutes, but it seems like the stream is interrupted, and third-party clients like Tweetbot still appear to be having trouble connecting at all, although they’re still able to send and receive direct messages.

There’s nothing yet on Twitter’s own service status page, but the generally dependableDownForEveryoneOrJustMe seems to think that it’s having problems, as doesdownrightnow.com. Based on our information, it looks like the outages began appearing around 20 minutes or so ago, and are affecting users globally. The fail whale is coming up when we try to visit Twitter.com, with a message saying the service is “over capacity.”