Twitter crashes hard, Internet freaks out

[Jack]

Twitter crashed so hard on June 21 that the site didn't even display the famous "Fail Whale." Instead, it simply timed out.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Cue the collective Internet freakout! Twitter went down for more than an hour on Thursday afternoon, depriving users of a place to complain that Twitter is down.

The Twitter outage began at 11:59 a.m. ET, according to Twitter's page on tracking site Pingdom. Service returned intermittently around 1 p.m., but less than an hour later, Twitter crashed again.
"Engineers are currently working to resolve the issue," a Twitter spokeswoman told CNNMoney. She declined to comment on a reason for the outage.

Twitter updated its status blog at 1:42 saying "the issue has been resolved and all services are currently operational" -- but at 2:16, another update from Twitter backtracked and said "the issue is on-going."

Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/21/technology/twitter-down/index.htm

 

[MrXidus]

Someone tripped over a cable again.

 

[pcjunklist]

Twitter is down and people can't tweet about it......I love it

 

[McLovin]

I had no idea it went down. Meh, gives people the opportunity to get outside.

 

[McLovin]

Another news about Twitter:

Twitter quietly grows up; handles its scandal

 

[ranget]

crash or hacked

if it just crashed it's not a big deal form a security aspect
but a disaster from IT + network POV