Twitter is back after a major outage
by Tom Warren from The Verge - All Posts on (#61DD9)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter went down for around 40 minutes this morning, in a major outage for the social network. Issues started with the service at around 8:05AM ET, with many users reporting over capacity" error messages, and even errors saying this page is down." The issues affected Twitter web, mobile, and even the company's TweetDeck app.
Downdetector had thousands of reports of issues with Twitter, but Twitter's own status page claimed all systems operational." While the main Twitter.com domain loaded, many users weren't able to log into the service or access tweets. Twitter started to come back to life at around 8:40AM ET, with many able to tweet and access the service again.
At 9:10AM ET Twitter tweeted, we're working to get it back up and...