Fans everywhere take to Twitter as their common place to look at the latest trends, topics and see what’s going on with their favorite twitterers. So this afternoon when Twitter went down for over an hour it left users without a stream of trending information.
The twitter outage reportedly lasted from 11:59 a.m. EST Thursday and did not resume service until 1 p.m. Not even an hour later, Twitter had a secondary crash. This was the longest service interruption since October 7th, 2011. Twitter has had several problems in the past, but had been on a good streak lately. The company used to display its famous “fail whale” error message, but today twitter users everywhere were disappointed to only receive a time out error – I’m guessing they were caught off guard and needed all hands on deck. Quite the outage.
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