Twitter gets kicked while down

by Andy DeSoto on June 5, 2008

It seems as if the problems won’t stop. To add insult to Twitter’s recent injury by Plurk, it looks like another disaster has hit the site.  Says the recently-created Twitter status page,

We just lost a database about 5 minutes ago and this has severely impacted the site.

We’re working on recovering from this now.

As you can guess, this can’t be good at all.  It’s almost getting to the point where the internet community actually feels sorry for the poor guys over at Twitter with all the recent negative publicity they’ve received.  You know it’s bad when even the “Fail Whale” isn’t showing his face.

Hopefully this isn’t as big of a deal as the status update makes it sound.  If it is, unfortunately, this could be the end of the line for Twitter.

What do you think?

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