“Waiting for twitter.com…” is the message of the day for users of the popular social sharing service.
At least some and likely many users have been unable to access the micro-blogging site for at least the past hour.
No word yet on what has caused the outage and the company’s own Status blog only says that “Users may be experience (sic) some issues with our service; our engineers are currently working on the issue.”
Even trying to access other areas of the company’s corporate website returns a message that “Twitter is over capacity.”
So far, attempts to reach the company by email and phone for more information about the outage and estimated repair time have been unsuccessful.
UPDATE: A Twitter representative responded via email that the company has no comment on the outage and referred users to the Twitter status blog at status.twitter.com.
Josh Gingold is the Managing Editor of Business and Technology Research Libraries for CBS Interactive with primary responsibility for the presentation of key research and commentary through a combination of blogs, white papers, and Webcasts.
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Josh Gingold
Josh Gingold is the Managing Editor of Business and Technology Research Libraries for CBS Interactive with primary responsibility for the presentation of key research and commentary through a combination of blogs, white papers, and Webcasts. Josh's past experiences include a variety of editorial and production assignments for CNBC, CNET, Discovery Communications, History Channel, National Geographic Channel, TechTV, ZDTV, and many others. Previously, Josh was a TV producer, writer, and editor for several local stations where he was also recognized with a Golden Mic Award from the Radio and Television News Directors Association. Josh is a proud alumni of Fresno State University and California State University, Bakersfield where he studied Philosophy, English, and Communications.
