Twitter is Currently Down for Maintenance What a Shocker

Twitter is down so much that I think someone could get a LOT of customers by creating an application that would send us an alert when the darn thing is actually WORKING!

I understand that they are growing like crazy - and that they are experimenting with throttling the usage to keep it from crashing so much - but, it is frustrating to begin to rely on the lightening fast communication it provides and see it go down so much.

Reminds me of the early days of cellular when dropped calls - horrible connections - and dead zones were more common than "uptime."

When it goes down - you can't even see the PAST tweets and catch up. Is there no cache? Are they cold rebooting the IBM 386/AT computer it runs on?

Every app that is built to run on Twitters api or datafeed collapses which puts code like this on my blog sidebar:

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to twitter.com:80 (Connection timed out) in /home/rbutt/public_html/wp-content/plugins/twitter_updater/twitter_updater.php on line 15
Connection timed out (110)

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/rickbutt/public_html/wp-content/plugins/twitter_updater/twitter_updater.php:15) in /home/rbutt/public_html/wp-includes/classes.php on line 788

So while Twitter is down - here is a great resource to learn about how to use Twitter super-effectively - when it is up:

The Twitter Handbook by Coach Deb and Warren Whitlock