Something is clogging the Twitter stream!
Something has dammed the Twitter river. I bet it was this guy.
(Credit: Creative Commons licensed: flickr.com/photos/sherseydc)Holy cow. Is nothing on the Internet working these days? Facebook's acknowledged that a number of members have had account maintenance issues, and now Twitter has confirmed that "many" users are experiencing timeline delay problems.
Basically, the lowdown is that you can post tweets, and they'll publish, but that your timeline--the stream of updates from the Twitter accounts you follow--isn't bringing up any new tweets. For me, it looks like this started at around 8:00 a.m. PT.
Twitter, which has been prone to many an outage in its three-year history, says it is investigating the problem and will provide an update shortly.
(Photo by Flickr user sherseydc, licensed under Creative Commons).
Caroline McCarthy, a CNET News staff writer, is a downtown Manhattanite happily addicted to social-media tools and restaurant blogs. Her pre-CNET resume includes interning at an IT security firm and brewing cappuccinos. E-mail Caroline. 
Leave a few more trails to regret in years to come.
And, yes this trail is marked due to the comment. I can live with my past.
CM: "And in mid 2008, I started writing about a now, bankrupted company called Twitter. I thought it was so neat, that I wrote about it, like, everyday for more than a year. This was, like, despite all the other topics I could have written about."
Employer: "Tell us why you spent so much time on Twitter, did you think the company had value?"
CM: "No, I'm just a half twit, and well, I don't really know how to do research into, like, other topics, so I just kind of stayed with one."
Employer: "You said that you don't know how to do research, one of the first things you learn as a journalist is to do research, what do you say to that?"
CM: "Oh, I'm no journalist, I'm a blogger."
Clever idea. P*ss poor architecture and execution. They're probably running SF MUNI, too.
- by alchemistmuffin October 9, 2009 3:11 PM PDT
- As a student attending Oregon State University, PLEASE DO NOT BLAME THE TWITTER CLOG ON US!
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(14 Comments)Go Beavs
But really, Twitter needs to buy more servers, and also actually start monitoring the tweets. Otherwise, they are missing out on revenue....