Of Course Twitter is Down

Posted on May 21, 2008

Twitter is down again today for the third or fourth day in a row. It has had numerous problems of late after running pretty smoothly from January to April. Part of the reason may be the rapid growth in April. TechCrunch blogged about Twitter's uptime woes recently and Twitter responded. Twitter says the latest outage was due to a database failure.

Downtime is not good. We caused a database to fail during a routine update early this afternoon. We switched to a replica and expect this recovery to take place quickly. We're all working on it and watching right now as Twitter gets back up to speed. We have a thread open on our support forum which we'll update when we have more details to share. Getting our act together is something we continue to work on as we grow our company and our service.

The downtime has become so frequent that the Is Twitter Down? website has changed the answer to the question from "Yes" to "Of Course."