Twitter is down again

Twitter is celebrating the launch of Twitter Places by presenting all users with the Fail Whale for at least the past hour. According to the Twitter status blog, this time the outage is due to "scheduled maintenance," and more information ... continue

Twitter Suffers More Serious Downtime

Twitter of late seems to be chanelling its past with repeated bouts serious downtime, including downtime as of 2am PDT Sunday (7pm AEST) as we write this post. The more frequent downtime of late would seem to coincide ... continue

Twitter Down! Twitter Suffers Major Outage

The fail whale is back today with popular microblogging service Twitter suffering a major outage. Twitter went down at approximately 2:10pm PST (9:10am AEDT,) with both the Twitter.com site, and the API (so all third part services) dropping ... continue

Reports Claim Twitter Down Due To Iranian Hacking

As we reported earlier tonight (and first online), Twitter suffered a major outage Thursday evening (US Time)/ Friday (everywhere else.) New reports claims that Twitter being down might have been caused by Iranian hackers. Multiple sites are claiming ... continue

Twitter bounces back from new wave of DDoS attacks

Twitter was hit again today with outages, but the microblogging service was better equipped to deal with the attacks today after last week's very public meltdown. The service was affected around 3pm EST (12pm Pacific) for around 20 ... continue

Twitter Outages Caused By Terrorist Attacks

Twitter is well into it's second day of crippling DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks and after learning more about the nature of the trouble, the team has been updating us via the Twitter blog. DDoS attacks ... continue

Twitter users get a dose of the old days as Twitter API fails

The new wave of Twitter users got a dose of Twitter past today as the Twitter API failed, blocking access to third party Twitter clients. As of 4pm PST, there is no official word from Twitter about the ... continue