WORDPRESS DOWN: WordPress Problems Confirmed By Site

UPDATE: WordPress is reportedly back up and running after being down earlier this evening.

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Experiencing WordPress problems? Tweets from Twitter users and a Twitter post from WordPress.com confirm that publishing platform is down.

WordPress wrote in a tweet: "WordPress.com is down, we're working on restoring service now."

As Center Network notes, sites hosted by WordPress may be down:

Interestingly, this outage comes just 10 days after the technology blog Techcrunch moved to the Wordpress VIP program. Top tech blog GigaOM, also hosted on the Wordpress VIP program is also down.

Follow the live Twitter feed below for real-time updates on the WordPress outage. You can also check WordPress' Twitter account, WordPressDotCom, to for updates on the site's status.

We'll update you with more information as it's available.

Comments

[curiousasheck]

10:12 AM on 02/21/2010

FIX IT

[wadenelson1]

08:34 PM on 02/18/2010

Could someone, maybe the article's author, explain to the REST of us what Wordpress is, and how this outage affects ME?

[Dan Woog]

06:25 PM on 02/18/2010

Wordpress is back up. Now I can breathe again.

[Funky Discharge]

06:31 PM on 02/18/2010

Yes - I confirmed this as of about 5 minutes ago.

[Littleguylobby]

05:32 PM on 02/18/2010

Mom, I told you to use Joomla.

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