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Twitter Status - http://status.twitter.com/

No news at the status site either, that beats the purpose of having a dedicated status site.

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Twitter Site Issue 17 seconds ago

Users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue.

My favorite part is the Tweet-Button with zero tweets.

It has 56 tweets now...perhaps the outage is somewhat intermittent?

"Users may be experiencing difficulties accessing Twitter"? Weasel words are so annoying and unnecessary. "Twitter is down." would do.

"Twitter is down" means something very different from "Some people are having trouble accessing Twitter." My own traceroute results during the outage pointed to network problems, and I saw people saying they could access it.

It was unavailable to many people, not down.

They just updated:

http://status.twitter.com/

Users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue.

That's called understatement.

The best part is their status site is powered by tumbler even though they acquired posterous.

The even better part is that Tumblr is often down itself, which means that status.twitter probably has more downtime than www.twitter

The real irony for me is they host their status page via Tumblr, which has at times had a pretty dismal uptime number.

This link isn't working for me as of now

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