Twitter Fail Robot heralds an outage for some users
Twitter experienced sporadic outages this afternoon before being resolved a short time later. Some users reported error messages when trying to use the service, although TweetDeck--owned by Twitter--was still working.
Attempts to access Twitter in San Francisco resulted in a message that displayed the Fail Robot and stated: "Something is technically wrong. Thanks for noticing--we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon.
Others saw the Twitter Fail Whale and a message saying "Twitter is over capacity."
The site was accessible to visitors in other parts of the country, however.
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