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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.

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