outages

Twitter Regresses To Infancy After Upgrade Attempt

10:21AM Ryan Tate | Twitter tried to launch a new home page today, one that would better appeal to mainstream users. Instead, the microblogging service has reverted to the original “Old Twitter” interface it replaced last year – when it’s not failing entirely. More »

Facebook Can’t Stay Up

6:06AM Ryan Tate | For the second day in a row, Facebook’s servers stopped responding. What gives? Facebook says they’re working on it, again, but does not describe the actual problem. We’d like to blame the endless, deafening Facebook movie chatter, somehow. Update: Back, partly. More »

Facebook Nuked?

4:43AM Ryan Tate | Many people haven’t been able to connect to Facebook for over half an hour. Other people report connecting just fine. There’s no official word yet, but lots of Twitter moaning. At least show us a pretty whale, Facebook.

Flaky Facebook Hinders Employee Procrastination

2:02AM Ryan Tate | Some people can’t log in into their Facebook accounts, according to widespread reports on Twitter. Apparently, a subset of these people have even resigned themselves to becoming productive employees, on this Monday. Horrifying. [Business Insider] [Pic] More »

How To Cope With The Loss Of GMail

7:03AM Ryan Tate | GMail is still down. But forlorn users of Google’s email service are not without ways of coping with their waking nightmare. Together, we will get through this. Here’s how. More »