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Twitter mum on service disruption

By | December 14, 2011, 3:46pm PST

Summary: Twitter has “no further comment” on an hour of persistent error messages and inconsistent service.

Twitter isn’t commenting on an outage that left many users unable to access the micro-blogging service for the better part of an hour today.

Despite a host of different error messages throughout the site, some users were still able to tweet from aggregated social media providers such as TweetDeck as well as possibly some types of social sharing widgets.

No word yet on what caused the outage and a Twitter representative said via email that the company has “no further comment” instead referring users to the Twitter status blog at status.twitter.com for updates.

That site reported the problem resolved just a little after 3:00 p.m. Pacific.

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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.
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[sarcasm]The most informative story to hit my RSS reader.[/sarcasm]

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