Twitter Broken

First the connection to AIM went away and now this.

Comments

[Mark Waks]

Sadly, it's not exactly a big surprise. I've been nervous about Twitter for quite a while, and the MacWorld Meltdown pretty much confirmed those concerns.

I wish I knew where the problem was. There have been rumors that Rails just isn't stable enough for enterprise-level systems (even aside from how slow it is), and this seems to be possible supporting evidence. Which is disappointing, because I would love to be able to work in a Ruby environment, if I was confident it was mature enough...

[Bernie Goldbach]

It's interesting how the April 2008 outage resulted in a small flow of updates posted, instead of a broken bird on screen. And in my case, many of the updates showing up from people I followed came from their newsfeeds, not from friends actually using Twitter's web form to update their statuses.