{"id":55865,"date":"2012-07-26T19:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T17:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=55865"},"modified":"2012-07-26T22:42:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T20:42:59","slug":"twitter-downtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/55865-twitter-downtime.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter downtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Twitter website was down for well over an hour on Thursday (26 July 2012). The downtime started shortly before 18:00, and to date the company did not say what was to blame for the downtime.<\/p>\n<p>The following message greeted users to the Twitter website this evening: \u201cTwitter is currently down for (%= reason %). We expect to be back in (%= deadline %). For more information, check out Twitter Status. Thanks for your patience!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twitter said that \u201cUsers may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Numerous news sources globally confirmed that Twitter was down for people across the world, and not just local Internet users.<\/p>\n<p>This downtime comes shortly after Google\u2019s messaging service, Gtalk, experienced prolonged downtime today.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55869\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/55865-twitter-downtime.html\/attachment\/twitter-is-currently-down\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55869\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55869\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55869\" title=\"Twitter is currently down\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Twitter-is-currently-down.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter is currently down\" width=\"600\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Twitter-is-currently-down.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Twitter-is-currently-down-100x22.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Twitter-is-currently-down-185x41.jpg 185w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Twitter-is-currently-down-250x55.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twitter is currently down<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Google Talk downtime frustrates users\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/55845-google-talk-downtime-frustrates-users.html\"><strong>Google Talk downtime frustrates users<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Export your Twitter history\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/55693-export-your-twitter-history.html\"><strong>Export your Twitter history<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/55467-twitter-teams-up-with-the-olympics.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Twitter teams up with the Olympics<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/54625-twitter-gets-new-reworked-app.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Twitter gets new reworked app<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MyBroadband Article\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/54263-most-popular-twits-in-south-africa.html\"><strong>Most popular Twits in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Twitter website has experienced prolonged downtime today; cause currently unknown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":52047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,405],"class_list":["post-55865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55867,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55865\/revisions\/55867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}