Fail Whale resurfaces as Twitter experiences ‘availability issues’
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Twitter users have been seeing quite a few Fail Whales on Wednesday.
According to Twitter, which has been updating users on the site’s troubles throughout the day, it is having ‘availability issues’ that are precluding some users from being able to access the site. Users are also having trouble seeing all the tweets in their timeline.
‘Users may notice that their timelines are updating slowly,’ Twitter wrote Wednesday morning on its status blog. ‘All tweets will eventually be delivered.’
As the issue persisted on the site, Twitter issued another update to its status blog just half an hour later, saying that it turned off Twitter Search. It also stopped allowing users to upload profile images to stabilize the site.
Early Wednesday afternoon, Twitter announced that timelines were current and all services were turned back. The company said that the cause of the site’s downtime was ‘an error with networking equipment.’ According to the social network, the equipment failure prevented it from ‘serving at full capacity.’
For a while, things were going well on Twitter. I updated the site after the status was posted and found no issues. But the Fail Whale problems started resurfacing mid-afternoon, causing Twitter to once again update its status blog, saying that it’s ‘experiencing a recurrence of this morning’s networking issue.’
The company said that it was once again investigating the problem.
Twitter users have expressed their displeasure with the site’s downtime on Wednesday. A search of ‘Fail Whale’ on Twitter Search has revealed several tweets referencing Twitter’s downtime problems.
Among many others, Hollywood blogger Perez Hilton updated his Twitter timeline, saying, ‘Twitter is giving me too much fail whale today!’
You’re not alone, Perez.
-- Don Reisinger