Twitter suffers second outage in 5 weeks

Twitter suffered its second widespread outage in 5 weeks on Thursday, a blow to the micro-blogging service's reputation and reliability.

By:REUTERS
| Updated on: Jul 27 2012, 11:19 IST
image caption
Twitter-is-a-popular-micro-blogging-site

Twitter suffered its second widespread outage in 5 weeks on Thursday, a blow to the micro-blogging service's reputation and reliability.

Twitter - infamous for its 'fail whale' outage messages in its early years - went dark for hours on June 21. On Thursday, users trying to log on to its website were greeted only by an incomplete error message: 'Twitter is currently down for. We expect to be back in.'

You may be interested in

MobilesTablets Laptops
3% OFF
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5
  • Icy Blue
  • 12 GB RAM
  • 256 GB Storage
Vivo X100 Pro 5G
  • Asteroid Black
  • 16 GB RAM
  • 512 GB Storage
8% OFF
Apple iPhone 15 Plus
  • Black
  • 6 GB RAM
  • 128 GB Storage
17% OFF
OPPO F25 Pro
  • Lava Red
  • 8 GB RAM
  • 128 GB Storage

'Users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue,' the San Francisco-based company wrote in a blog post shortly after 8:30 a.m. Pacific time (1530 GMT).

Also read
Looking for a smartphone? To check mobile finder click here.

The June episode revived fears that stability issues may once again be plaguing Twitter, which claims to have significantly improved its infrastructure. The company blamed that incident on a 'cascading bug.'

Founded in 2006, Twitter's phenomenal growth means it has struggled to handle the ever-rising volume of tweets. But in recent years, it has devoted considerable resources toward improving reliability in a move to project itself as a mature, polished brand.

Chief Executive Dick Costolo, who has focused on improving the service's profitability and attracting advertisers, said last month that Twitter has 140 million active monthly users who send 400 million tweets daily.

Google Inc's online messaging and voice-calls service - Google Talk - also went down for hours on Thursday in what appeared to be a separate outage. The issue should have been resolved as of mid-morning, according to the company's status update page.

Catch all the Latest Tech News, Mobile News, Laptop News, Gaming news, Wearables News , How To News, also keep up with us on Whatsapp channel,Twitter, Facebook, Google News, and Instagram. For our latest videos, subscribe to our YouTube channel.

First Published Date: 26 Jul, 22:08 IST
NEXT ARTICLE BEGINS