"The company initially confirmed the outage by, somehow, tweeting, from its @support account. We were unable to see the tweet, because Twitter was down."
Tongue-in-cheek statements like this are proof that the guardian is still a british news org
Even better was that being followed with "Twitter emailed the text of the tweet to the Guardian".
Not so long ago Twitter outages used to happen every now and then.
It's quite interesting to see how now everybody expects it to be running 24/7.
Ah yes "the fail whale" was a common and much loved feature of day to day twife :-)
I mean, one part of me has worked on the backend of uber-high-bandwidth computing services and understands that there is no analogue to performance at that scale, and the other part is like "IT PUTS WORDS THAT PEOPLE POSTED ON A BUNCH OF PAGES, YOU CAN IMPLEMENT THE CORE FUNCTIONALITY IN AN AFTERNOON."
So I guess I kinda get it.
I was waiting on this to appear on Hacker News. I take to Twitter to complain whenever a service is down. Now that Twitter is down... I guess all that is left is this HN thread.
I don't think this is going to help their share price!
Don't you say?
Wonder what's caused the outage, they're leveraging Mesos/Aurora pretty heavily AFAIK which is what I'm moving towards so would rather it wasn't something on that side of things.
Visited the status page where you have the option to tweet status problems.
I ended in a perfect loop circle.
//edit
as it looks like HN is now the twitter clone.
hey @support your service is down!
How big organization have to be to make twitter down - single US agency, Country ?
Twitter are quite capable of falling over by themselves.