Twitter Down, Overwhelmed by Whales

Data Center Knowledge (Jan 20 2010) Microblogging

1. Twitter was offline this morning, experiencing its longest sustained downtime since an Aug. 8 outage from a denial of service attack. Reliability has been on ongoing project for Twitter as the service has scaled up to handle growing traffic. This popular microblogging service has been offline for about an hour this morning, according to the Pingdom uptime monitoring service. UPDATE: Looks like the Twitter.com site is available again as of about 7:55 a.m. Eastern time. “We are experiencing an outage due to an extremely high number of whales,” reports the Twitter status page. “A sudden failure coupled with problems in switching to a backup system produced a high number of errors for around 90 minutes. This made the site largely inaccessible. No data was lost or compromised during this outage.” (Read Full Article)

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