Twitter client TweetDeck experienced an outage this morning, sending reporters of all stripes into a panic that they might miss an embarrassing Trump tweet or the latest teen trend finally making its way to the social network.
The Twitter-owned app was down for 60–90 minutes, but users could still access Twitter.com in their browsers. However, many members of the media use TweetDeck’s column view and ability to easily show multiple Twitter lists on one screen to complete day-to-day work. Many of those columns appeared blank, or only updated tweets after a long delay. Sending tweets was also disabled for some users.
https://twitter.com/EmilyDreyfuss/status/621692499015434240
https://twitter.com/TheFix/status/621694460678774785
https://twitter.com/ow/status/621700034292228100
https://twitter.com/Kirsten__Boyd/status/621685456938254336
https://twitter.com/sfiegerman/status/621691644178468865
https://twitter.com/ow/status/621696035346337792
https://twitter.com/faddei_frodo/status/621695850843123714
TweetDeck acknowledged the problem about an hour into the problem, with a tweet, of course.
https://twitter.com/TweetDeck/status/621700371895836673
TweetDeck was back up and running by 8:30 Pacific for many users.