Twitter Pwnd by Its Own Popularity

Posted on March 19, 2007

Twitter was slow earlier today and it now appears to have crashed completely. It was probably inevitable given the way the service was growing. Numerous mashups and apps were built over the past days and that probably also helped overload Twitter's current server capabilities. Bloggers are now blogging about the Twitter outage. When there is a Twitter outage one must return to their blogs to write about it.

The Best Damn Tech Show says, "I'm sure they'll be adding servers soon, as twitter has already become a big part of daily routines in the geek world. That's not always an easy thing to accomplish, but hey, these are the lads who created Blogger." They also suggest trying Jaiku.

Simonsays writes that thousands are going Twitter cold-turkey right now. Greg Verdino was trying to use the TwitterBox SL plug-in to get Twitter to work in Second Life before the Twitter crash.

Digital Craig says, "*shock* *horror* Twitter is down. Going to Twitter.com just takes you to blank page. Even Twittermap and Twittervision have no new updates! What am I going to do now?!"

A message on Twitter now reads, "Twitter: down for maintenance-be back shortly!" While Twitter is down maybe a few more bloggers who have been neglecting their macroblogs will write a post or two.