Twitter’s homepage went down sometime around 2 p.m. PST Wednesday afternoon, but came back online about 30 minutes later.
We reached out to Twitter to find out more and they directed us to this status page. It does not appear that Twitter’s mobile app was affected, nor were third-party apps like TweetDeck. We know this because people were still tweeting while the main site was down and freaking out, even though they could still tweet and read their timelines. Check out some of the crazies below to see what I’m talking about.
On a more serious note, this summer has been full of outages. Instagram, Vine, Airbnb, Flipboard and several others went down on Aug. 25 for about two hours after an Amazon Web Services server issue. Meanwhile, Amazon.com went down for 40 minutes a few weeks ago, presumably costing the Seattle online giant millions in sales. Two days before that, all of Google’s services went down for five minutes. The New York Times also went down for two hours three weeks ago — and was also hacked last week — while GitHub also experienced outages.
And now for the crazies:
https://twitter.com/AzraSoftic/status/375368881147092994
https://twitter.com/RachyG543/status/375368877263179776
https://twitter.com/chrsmcpherson/status/375368800515796992
https://twitter.com/thevampslydia/status/375368739715547136
https://twitter.com/georgey_thomas/status/375368723638390784
https://twitter.com/RyanHopkins169/status/375373389470265344
https://twitter.com/amsterdamnyou/status/375368743116759040
https://twitter.com/5secondsofchlo/status/375371708137353216
https://twitter.com/_toxicharry/status/375371676260659200
https://twitter.com/McAtamneyx/status/375371329588822017
https://twitter.com/Mr_Seerat_Cule/status/375371166090661888
https://twitter.com/hollowbodi3s/status/375368589781368832