Serious Twitter Outage & Facebook Also Failing

Posted by Mauricio on Aug 6, 2009 at 10:31 AM | Comments

leave twitface alone 300x249 Serious Twitter Outage & Facebook Also Failing

* UPDATE From the status blog:

Update (9:46a): As we recover, users will experience some longer load times and slowness. This includes timeouts to API clients. We’re working to get back to 100% as quickly as we can.

If you’ve been wondering why your BlackBerry Twitter or Facebook applications aren’t working well today, it’s because a virtual apocalypse is in currently progress! Just kidding, but they are experiencing some problems.

Twitter as of right now is fully down with this update from their status blog:

We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly.

Facebook is also having some intermittent issues but seems to be working for the most part. Until these problems are sorted out TechCrunch has a great list of alternative things to do.

Let me know if these problems are affecting you in the comments!

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tfrankson

Twitter is still down as of 12:22p EST on my end.

Gerry52

My Facebook inbox does not seem to be responding. Tried to delete some spam and nothing is happening.
Gerry

John Westra

The risks of depending on any single social networking or microblogging platform were once again revealed by today's Twitter and Facebook outage. These outages also highlighted the need for a national response to DOS and other forms of "Cyber Terrorism."

Unless the government begins "sanctioning" those who conduct these attacks as a matter of national security, they will continue indefinitely. Individuals and organizations who fail to secure their computers and companies who produce insecure computer operating systems and software are complicit in these attacks. Most attacks would be significantly more difficult, if not impossible to conduct, if perpetrators lacked easy access to the tools (bot computers) used to conduct their attacks and the targets themselves were better hardened.

Want to discuss this with me more? I invite you to join me on Plurk (www.plurk.com/JohnWestra/invite) a microblogging platform similar to Twitter, but with a threaded discussion format many people who have tried it prefer.