Twitter Down For Hours Of 'Planned Maintenance'

NEW YORK — The microblogging site Twitter Inc. was out of commission for a couple of hours early Sunday for some of the roughly 100 million users around the world.

Instead of the usual screen that allows people to send a tweet, the home page indicated the site was down for "planned maintenance" but was expected to be back in a few hours.

It was accompanied by a cartoon.

According to a status website run by the San Francisco-based company, Twitter's hosting provider, NTT America, was to start the maintenance at 2 a.m. EDT Sunday and it was to last about five hours.

Some tweets appeared to start moving again after about 90 minutes but some users were still unable to send messages hours later.

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http://status.twitter.com/

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NEW YORK (AP) – The microblogging site Twitter Inc. was out of commission early Sunday for the roughly 100 million users around the world.

Instead of the usual screen that allows people to send a tweet, the home page indicated the site was down for "planned maintenance" but was expected to be back in a few hours.

It was accompanied by a cartoon.

According to a status website run by the San Francisco-based company, Twitter's hosting provider, NTT America, was to start the maintenance at 2 a.m. EDT Sunday and it was to last about five hours. The message said some users wouldn't be able to use the site for at least part of that time.

In a post on that website earlier Saturday, Twitter said it was trying to remedy what it called "an elevated rate of errors."

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http://twitter.com/

http://status.twitter.com/

Comments

[TParrish]

07:21 AM on 08/02/2010

Oh no! How am I going to know if (insert any name here) is (insert uninteresting activity here)?

[Mikeeee]

12:57 AM on 08/02/2010

I don't suppose there's any hope of it staying down? It'd be so nice to have an avenue for sarah closed. Maybe facebook next? Yes.

[CoronaDischarge]

05:57 PM on 08/01/2010

That's the best news yet. I totally missed it. Except I wouldn't know if it went down in the middle of the day, it is so irrelevant to me.

[DaMojo]

03:57 PM on 08/01/2010

OMG! How on earth did anyone manage during it???? LOL

[Whinger]

01:40 PM on 08/01/2010

Cold Turkey, shouting at the computer, kicking the cat and dog, oh the pain, the pain!

[Winedude]

12:44 PM on 08/01/2010

Does that mean that 100 million people had to get a life today? Maybe the world will get lucky and Facebook could go down for a few hours at the same time as Twitter...Betty White was right!

[JoeGdr]

12:10 PM on 08/01/2010

So?

[yublogmichaelkirschner]

10:24 AM on 08/01/2010

Instead of the usual screen that allows people to send a tweet, the home page indicated the site was down for "planned maintenance" but was expected to be back in a few hours.

It was accompanied by a cartoon.

Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaly? Was it a whale, because I've never seen that before.