23 posts and columns on Fail Whale

Twitter Suffers Brief Link Service Outage

in Social on April 11 at 7:12 am PT

No more fail whale. Say hello to fail robot monkey.
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Twitter Goes Down. Again.

in Social on January 31 at 7:32 am PT

Twitter experienced site-wide downtime for the third instance in as many weeks on Thursday morning, as many users were unable to load the site via the Web or mobile devices. “Some users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue,” the company said via a site status blog. It’s disconcerting as the site grows into popular mainstream use; Twitter needs to distance itself from the early “fail whale” days if it wants to prove reliable to both consumers and advertisers alike.

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Twitter Takes Two Dives in One Week

in Social on January 21 at 7:13 pm PT

Twitter underwent site-wide downtime issues for many on Monday, leaving users of the company’s website and mobile clients in the dark sporadically for a period of hours. It’s the second time in just four days that Twitter has undergone site-wide issues, after months of continuous, relatively problem-free uptime. The company has acknowledged the issue, but gave no ETA for a fix.

On Election Day 2012, Twitter Kills the Great White Fail Whale

in Social on November 7, 2012 at 5:00 am PT

Despite a torrent of tweets from across the globe, Twitter engineering managed to keep the site’s head above water.
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RIP, Fail Whale.

RIP, Fail Whale.

– Twitter Creative Director Doug Bowman, as Twitter’s engineering team held up under a massive 300,000+ tweets-per-minute server load on election night 2012

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Twitter Down for Everyone, Not Just You

in Social on July 26, 2012 at 8:57 am PT

Twitter experienced a site-wide outage at approximately 8:30 am PT Thursday, the first since the site had its major period of downtime last month. Twitter acknowledged the problems on its site status page: “Users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue,” the page states. Some users were able to access the service, however, using the mobile Web version of the site. Update: As of approximately 10:30 a.m. PDT, Twitter seems to be up and running.

Twitter’s Bad Day: Site-Wide Outages Recall the “Fail Whale” Era

in Social on June 21, 2012 at 5:46 pm PT

The company opens up after a day of site-wide outages, but not before taking its share of knocks.
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After a Big Week in Cannes, Twitter Hit With Site-Wide Outage

in Social on June 21, 2012 at 10:15 am PT

After taking the limelight with major ad announcements at the Cannes Lions Festival in France this week, Twitter experienced a period of prolonged downtime on its Web site and mobile app on Thursday, with an outage lasting more than an hour before the service was restored. “Users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter,” Twitter spokeswoman Carolyn Penner told AllThingsD. “Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue.” It’s the longest site-wide outage since Twitter’s frequent “fail whale” early days.