Twitter Down?
October 20, 2009 by Mark Andrews
Filed under Twitter
I’ve been getting the Twitter Fail Whale with an “over capacity” message on and off this afternoon. Apparently Twitter has been getting a lot of traffic. As they say, stuff happens. It seems to be working now, but I thought I’d share a handy tip for checking the status of the Twitter servers.
Just visit http://status.twitter.com. The folks at Twitter post updates here whenever they are experiencing networking problems, over capacity issues, etc. It’s a good place to go just to make sure the problem isn’t with your own Internet connection.
What do you do when Twitter goes down?
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Twitter is a waste of time. Who cares if it's down? Seriously.
I've been experiencing problems on and off with the OAuth servers, used when you authenticate to third party sites using your Twitter credentials. Usually it takes a few tries and they goes through, but the over capacity message has been popping up with more frequency the past couple days.