June 16, 2010
NEW DELHI:
The world's favourite bird fell silent for two-and-half hours early on Tuesday.
Microblogging website twitter.com couldn't be accessed, ruffling feathers in its multi-million-strong global community. The reason behind the snag is being quoted on tech websites as an upgrade that went awry.
A website updates said failed upgrade was meant to be an enhancement of a "new approach to timeline caching". Industry watcher websites said the outages coincided with the launch of a new feature, Twitter Places, that lets users highlight tweets around a given location. Twitter administrators put up a warning that updated might be out of sequence or even missing due to the technical fault. Some tweets were duplicated too.
The first sign that the website was in trouble was the appearance of the 'fail whale' that signifies things aren't flying as they should.
Rivals Facebook and Google will be watching closely, and looking for signs of migration.
BUSY BIRD
273 lakh Avg no. of global tweets every day
11.38 lakh Avg no. global tweets sent out every hour
180 lakh Approximate number of Twitter users by end of 2009
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