Twitter struggling?

June 13, 2010 By

Twitter has been down for more than 30 minutes now. Basically since I finished writing that last post about why we should consider Google Buzz again.

Seems that the World Cup traffic has been hammering Twitter.

I sure wish Twitter would get a handle on its scaling problems. Did no one see that an event like this would get everyone to Tweet?

UPDATE: Twitter has posted that they are having sitewide issues. Still is down, now has been down for more than an hour.

UPDATE2: as of 3:20 a.m. Pacific Time I’m able to get to Twitter again.

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  • http://www.contino.com Andrea Contino

    Do you think its because of the World Cup? We passed through 5 games in the last 2 days without any problem. And now, morning in South Africa, no games has started yet, and Twitter goes down? No, I think it's some technical issue, and not for the WC

  • Jayalumar Hariharan

    Working now in Bangalore…

    Jay

  • http://robertscobleizer.com Scobleizer

    You're right. Twitter just posted this update: http://status.twitter.com/post/693377858/site-w…

  • andlex

    Seems to be back up (at least in Australia).

  • CSB

    I am getting twitter whale again and again and sometimes i can enter.

    generally twitter has such big traffic that they should capitalize it and have enough money to handle traffic but they are too lazy and too arrogant - as you can see from the example of releasing their own twitter client and thus totally damaging 3rd party developers…

  • http://tvjames.blogspot.com/ TV James

    Was getting an overloaded whale at 7 am PST. Separately, but Robert - is Twitter making a big mistake? It seems like the only way to see trending topics is to sign-out. Is that correct? Seems like they're missing a big opportunity to be sticky by hiding this info.

  • http://tvjames.blogspot.com/ TV James

    Oh, and they seem to have no way to send them suggestions…?

  • http://twitter.com/ShirleyOM Shirley Osei-Mensah

    Seems that Twitter wants to tell us to reconsider Google Buzz, Robert :) . I think they should check that problem or else it can be part of what will bring them down one day. Just an advice from an 18 year old :) .

  • Ewdawg

    Maybe they should use Rackspace as their hosting provider? ;)

  • http://twitter.com/ShirleyOM Shirley Osei-Mensah

    Haha, funny :D .

  • http://twitter.com/mcavalcanti Miguel Cavalcanti

    I think the world cup will give a great growth for twitter. At least here in Brazil ;-)

  • http://www.eztrafficbuilding.com chuck @ traffic building

    Hard to believe that Twitter would get blindsided like that … of course, I have also been getting the whale a lot lately …

  • http://www.searchengineoptimisation.com Phil

    Yes Andrea, I am completely agreed with you.There can be technical faults for anybody.
    Nothing is perfect in this world.I do not agree with that saying that it was due to the world cup..

  • http://www.contino.com Andrea Contino

    What I'm worried about is that in 3 years Twitter still haven't solved this problem. I can understand that the traffic volumes are a million times more than 3 years ago, but also this morning we had a lot of outage time. I really hope for a really good service, such as Twitter is, to solve this asap