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Twitter is over capacity

June 9, 2010 No comments

Rudolph Muller is the editor at MyBroadband and covers telecoms and broadband news. Rudolph comes from an academic background, but left the University of...

Twitter has been unavailable to many consumers today, simply displaying the message ‘Twitter is over capacity’

Popular micro-blogging service Twitter was unavailable to numerous Internet users, displaying the message “Twitter is over capacity” to people trying to access the service.

Twitter has shown very strong growth since it was founded in 2007.  According to WikiPedia Twitter has recorded a 1500 percent growth in the number of registered users while the number of its employees has grown 500 percent.

According to uptime and error analysis service Pingdom Twitter has experienced downtime yesterday and today of 15 minutes and 20 minutes respectively.

 

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