If you are a Twitter user then you’re probably frustrated with the service thesedays and fed up with seeing the Fail Whale page that tells you that there’s just “too many tweets”. The API requests has also been lowered from the standard 70 per hour to just 20 which means if you’re using a desktop Twitter client like Twitterrific then you are buggered unless you lower the auto refresh from every 3 minutes to every 15 minutes to avoid the dreaded yellow triangle.
The official Twitter Status page often seems a bit casual as if they are shrugging and saying “So the site is down again, so what?”. Nothing much seems to change - goes from running fine then oops, everything has gone pear shaped again. Personally I prefer the Fake Twitter Status. It’s given me a good laugh this afternoon, especially this more recent one at the time of writing…
You’re totally going to laugh about this one. Somebody tripped over the power cable in our new offices and through some kind of “Butterfly Effect” kind of thing, the entire website went down. Go figure.
I’m looking forward to the day when the official Twitter status page is as open and as frank as the fake one!
02 Jul 08
10:03 pm
It does seem to be VERY flaky at the moment, certainly more so than before. I haven’t noticed it too much up to now, but it is starting to grate.
They MUST sort it out. I love twitter, and have dabbled with friendfeed etc, but the latter is almost TOO much info and interference.
03 Jul 08
1:57 pm
Good find!
I’m not savvy in any kind of computer coding, programming or whatever makes Twitter work, but what I cannot get my head round is why such a popular service is allowed to go down as often as it does. Surely, there should be measures in place to stop these things, I would happily give a donation to help them buy whatever it takes to make the service stable. It’s only recently, since I haven’t really been able to use a desktop client, that I have become seriously annoyed with the downtime.
Anyway, I shouldn’t rant about something I don’t know about. That being said, I really hope they sort out their problems soon.
04 Jul 08
5:14 pm
Twitter is a skeleton service right now. The 20 API requests is not good and I sincerely hope that will be increased *very soon*. If it remains at 20 for much longer then the forthcoming Twitterrific iPhone app is just simply going to be unusable. They never give updates on the API or seem to have any plan in place to get that increased. Very messy.