Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Twitter overboard

I've been busily working on my social media monitoring report all day, but I ran into a brick wall about 20 minutes ago--and it's all Twitter's fault. Every time I try to visit their site, I get the following error:

Something is technically wrong.

Is anyone else having this problem? Makes me wonder whether Twitter, which recently announced (as Laura pointed out) that we are now sending a billion tweets every week, is gaining users faster than it can handle them. I'll be curious to see if that starts causing them bad publicity, or whether they'll be able to expand their capacity sufficiently to prevent crashes from becoming a recurring issue.

1 comment:

Laura Mayes said...

I had the same issue! I got that message and another saying that Twitter was over capacity. Frustrating to say the least.