Yes, friends: Twitter is currently “down for maintenance.” While it seems that some scheduled tweets from other media outlets/cross-posted stuff from Tumblr or Vine have made it out, we here at Geekosystem have been unable to post anything for about 30 minutes, and keep getting the above graphic when we try.
We’ll keep you posted if we hear anything else. In the meantime, if you need somewhere to vent about your frustrations, our comments section is great for that. Just make sure your text is less than 140 characters so we can all keep up the facade.
UPDATE – 2:37pm EDT. The desktop feed appears to be back for us, but Tweetdeck is still stalling, and when we try to post something in-browser, we get this message:
Status.Twitter.com is also reporting that most users are “experiencing issues.” Hilariously, no one has been able to tweet this news out:
UPDATE – 2:41pm EDT. Looks like we’re back on over here in New York! All personal accounts and the Geekosystem appear to be working, at least, and our feed looks pretty much back to normal. There might still be some more problems with other users but it shouldn’t be long now before everyone is back on and able to complain on Twitter to their heart’s content.
UPDATE – 2:54 EDT. So we think that Twitter might have crashed because the developers were hard at work changing the word “Connect” to “Notifications” in the top menu:
It’s probably more complicated than that, but we’re still going to laugh at Twitter over this anyway.
UPDATE – 5:04 EDT. This statement from a couple hours ago currently appears on the Twitter status page:
During a planned deploy in one of our core services, we experienced unexpected complications that made Twitter unavailable for many users starting at 11:01am. We rolled back the change as soon as we identified the issue and began a controlled recovery to ensure stability of other parts of the service. The site was fully recovered by 11:47am PDT. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Most users are experiencing issues accessing Twitter on web and mobile apps. We’re looking into it.
(image via Twitter)
