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.