An overwhelming majority of netizens have gotten used to sharing and discussing the latest information and trends through Twitter, the most popular English language microblogging site (there's the Chinese version if you're wondering why "English language" needs to be emphasized). Now that there's a very compelling event to talk about—the site's own absence—it's beyond reach.
Twitter fails to load on any browser, client, or app as of posting time and there are no explanations yet regarding the outage. The noteworthy online platform for instantaneously sharing information couldn't facilitate the dissemination of details on why it's offline. Several news agencies have already contacted the Twitter admin for an explanation or announcement but an official answer is yet to be released.
Twitter only offers this brief post on its blog:
Users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue.
This is not the first time that Twitter has suffered an outage and as usual, the mob Internet lurkers are anxious to get an explanation or to have the site back.
Google readily presents the service Downrightnow on top of its results page for those who are turning to the search engine for an answer. Downrightnow lets users know whether a site is globally (translation: really/absolutely/totally) down or just down for certain users.
Well, on the bright side. Companies may expect some temporary increase in productivity in the next few minutes (or some hours hopefully). There may be also less bullying, nonsensical arguments, gossips, propaganda, and ranting on the Internet for the short period the site is absent.
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Well, the site's now up and running again. The "in the next few minutes (or some hours hopefully)" I was mentioning couldn't really be that long.
image from Troy Janisch
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