Well Twitter must be growing considerably in the last few weeks. I’ve gotten the below screen a few times in the last few days. It’s only up for a few seconds at this point and when I refresh my browser its working properly. I recently saw Twitter being used on CNN for a news program the other day where Tweets were being streamed in real time below the news anchor. I believe they must be screening what’s showing up on national TV though. The Twitter stream was actually for the CNN reporter. And of course McCain and Obama used Twitter in their campaigns. I believe Obama is still the number one user in Twitter with over 100k in followers. I actually just tried to pull the Twitter page for Barack Obama up and received another error which is also pasted below. Twitter must be experiencing some serious growth pains. I actually just found out that some hackers were able to hack into Barack Obama, Britney Spears, and Fox News personal Twitter accounts along with 33 other high profile people. Twitter has also had problems unrelated to this latest attack a few days ago with hackers sending out phishing tweets to get users to click links to enter in personal information to win free prizes. Click here to read the full article. I’m sure Twitter will continue to be tested as it grows in 2009. Stay tuned for more Twitter news!
Twitter Overload Error
Twitter Error for Barak Obama Page
#1 by Greg Huntoon on January 8, 2009 - 8:01 pm
Matt,
Actually, while this has become a little more frequent in the last few weeks because of all the press attention surrounding Twitter, its new celebrity adoptees, and the big hack that took place last week, outages are much less common these days.
Back in the day, during its Twitter’s adolescent growth spurts, it was happening on the regular. In fact, it was probably the reason that Twitter didn’t catch on with the masses for a long time. Loyalists just held on and complained, and Twitter eventually figured things out.
Now, it’s more of just hiccups. You see the outage screen, but like you reported, things are all back to normal 99% of the time when you simply refresh.