It was a dark day today. A very dark day.
Sometimes…at night…I can still hear the screams. #TwitterBug #ShutTwitterDown
— Fingers Malloy (@FingersMalloy) June 21, 2012
https://twitter.com/CuffyMeh/statuses/215856309441003521
WHY WAS TWITTER DOWN FOR AN HOUR IM STILL SHAKING I CAN'T EVEN
— CatsPolitics (@CatsPolitics) June 21, 2012
https://twitter.com/CuffyMeh/statuses/215857815649136640
Mellllllllllllltdooooooooooooooooooown!
Hold us!
For more than an hour, Twitter was unreachable, with not even a fail whale to comfort many of the tweet-less. At 12:33 p.m. EDT, a short post appeared on the Twitter status blog:
Users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue.
https://twitter.com/GayPatriot/statuses/215855765901148160
Twitter … dead? We refuse to believe such a thing is possible. Where’s the death certificate?!
Hey guys! Looks like http://t.co/e1ggCQkm and all Twitter clients are recovering. Sorry for the trouble! Let those Tweets take flight!
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) June 21, 2012
So what went wrong? We demand answers!
https://twitter.com/BenHowe/statuses/215856486805536768
No official explanation from our Twitter overlords yet, but here’s one plausible suggestion.
Twitter is facing significant headwinds.
— jon gabriel (@exjon) June 21, 2012
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Pesky headwinds! For now, it’s back to work as we try to reclaim some semblance of our former lives.
https://twitter.com/jimmiebjr/statuses/215854849869365248
At your service! Here’s how some Twitter addicts spent The Great Twitter Outage of 2012.
https://twitter.com/BenHowe/statuses/215855369598156800
Something I found out while Twitter was down: MySpace is still around. #WhoKnewf
— Kevin Creighton (@ExurbanKevin) June 21, 2012
https://twitter.com/LachlanMarkay/statuses/215855401671999491
Twitter was done, so I wrote out pithy 140 character messages and snail-mailed them to my friends.
— Kevin Creighton (@ExurbanKevin) June 21, 2012
https://twitter.com/LachlanMarkay/statuses/215854404803366912
During this lengthy and painful twitter downtime, FB decided that #Hashtagging is now acceptable. #JustATweeter
— Teri Peters (@hipEchik) June 21, 2012
I WENT TO FACEBOOK DURING THE TWITTER OUTAGE IM SO ASHAMED THE HORROR THE HORROR
— CatsPolitics (@CatsPolitics) June 21, 2012
I like when Twitter goes down because it gives me time to ask my family what their names are again.
— Reverend Scott (@Reverend_Scott) June 21, 2012
But guys, take it easy on the Twitterocalypse tweets, m’kay?
I'd laugh hysterically if the flood of "OMG TWITTER BROKE" tweets broke twitter again.
— Brittany (@bccover) June 21, 2012
We can’t go through this again. We just can’t.
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Update:
Twitter has gone down again. How much longer must we be jerked around like this? This is a constitutional crisis, dammit!
Our buddy Ben Howe has exclusive footage of one man’s reaction to Twitter’s meltdown:
That man speaks for all of us.
Oh, the humanity!
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Update:
It’s back. Or is it? MAKE UP YOUR MINDS, TWITTER GODS!
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Update:
Annnnd it’s back down.
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Update:
We give up on updates. Darn you and your temper tantrums, Twitter! *Shaking our fists*
Update:
We fibbed. We have one more update. A Twitter spokesman blamed the outages on a “cascading bug.”
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