Twitter Website Down – Temporary Outage

Post to Twitter

Twitter is currently experiencing extended downtime (August 6th 2009): a 1 Hour outage that’s one of the longest in recent months. Back in 2007 and 2008, Twitter downtime was relatively frequent: this year the site has been far more stable and its early outages have been largely forgotten.

In the last 5 minutes, Twitter has acknowledged the downtime on its status blog, but adds that it’s unsure of the cause:   Site is down. They are determining the cause and should provide an update shortly.

Update: Twitter is defending an On-Going-DDOS attack which let the site down. It’s been 1 hour now (Aug. 6th) & there are no signs of tweets!

Here’s the link to Twitter Blog for all those folks who want to keep an eye on the status: http://status.twitter.com/

August 6, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: Daily News