Thar, she blew! The Fail Whale, that is. This afternoon, many members of the Twitterati found themselves temporarily lost in the social media desert:
Some users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are working to resolve it. Find updates at status.twitter.com
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) June 3, 2013
Noooooooooo!
Where do I go to complain when Twitter is down? #paradox
— KurtJMac (@kurtjmac) June 3, 2013
I'm not seeing any tweets but my own. Is anyone else having trouble with Twitter?
— Laura McGinnis (@TxsleuthUSA) June 3, 2013
Is Twitter messing up?
— Mary #FlyTheW (@mchastain81) June 3, 2013
https://twitter.com/vadum/status/341655409213444096
Every time Twitter breaks down, I step back and remember what's really important in life: Twitter.
— Bradley Stern (@MuuMuse) June 3, 2013
what if twitter never works again what if this is it someone hold my hand
— @primabrandonna (@dietpepsichola) June 3, 2013
Who broke teh twittah? 🙁
— Sheila Antonio (@aggiemom04) June 3, 2013
https://twitter.com/GarrettQuinn/status/341654899727167489
How could this happen???
https://twitter.com/Matthops82/status/341656667164905472
Heh.
https://twitter.com/LoganDobson/status/341649200234242048
Not on your life. Twitter always comes back. Right? Right?
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So has Twitter stopped sucking yet?
— Eric H. (@ericinva) June 3, 2013
Yes. We hope. We just don’t have the strength to handle these outages.
That Twitter outage reminded me how badly I need to get a life.
— olliander (@ollieblog) June 3, 2013
I THINK TWITTER IS FIXED. YYAYAYAYAYAY
— Paul Blair (@gopaulblair) June 3, 2013
Praise be it! Twitter has returned! I shall sacrifice 10 sheep to the internet Gods for they have smiled and granted us good fortune!
— Will Upton (@wupton) June 3, 2013
Welcome back, Twitter.
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