Hello Mr Twitter Fail Whale! [Updated]
Posted by Karen in UncategorizedIt’s was a strange day the other day with Twitter, there I was happily tweeting away on my Twitter @BlazingMinds with my trusty Tweetdeck, when I got a read warning message about the Twitter API not working!
“Oh well, nothing to worry about” I thought, but it kept happening more and more, so I decided to visit the Status website for Twitter and find out what was going on…
It seemed to be the Twitter was suffering from “Site availability issues” which all boils down to one particular thing that we have been seeing on the Twitter website… The Fail Whale and Twitter Over Capacity!
Since the first mention of the problem, twitter have been updating their status and some Twitters may have even noticed a few options disappearing from the [intlink id="109" type="category"]Twitter website[/intlink] such as Twitter Search, hovercards, web sidebar data (trends, friends counts, etc) Also some tweets have been delayed a tad, but Twitter do promise they will be delivered.
So have you had any problems with Twitter today, did your Twitter client, TweetDeck or Hootsuite, for example have issues?
And most of all are you really bothered or do you just take the problems with a pinch of salt? 
[UPDATE] It seems that Twitter i having problems again today 13th June, with even more showing of the Fail Whale page, according to the Twitter Status website “We are experiencing site-wide availability issues due to a network service interruption. We’re currently working to address these issues. We’ll update with more information as it is available.” So I’m afraid we’ll all have to just suffer these outrages, until Twitter can sort it all out, I wonder if it has anything to do with the World Cup! Hmmmm
[UPDATE #2] More problems today 15 June, as tweets vanish from the cached timelines and tweeting is responded to with an internal server error! But luckily this problem has been resolved …
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Twitter: FamousBloggers
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It’s completely annoying today, I feel stressed when Twitter is over capacity
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Twitter: BlazingMinds
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It slowly seems to getting back to normal, the last update on the staus site was “All site features have been re-enabled. Latency and error rates are recovering quickly.”
Twitter: bbrian017
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I’m in the same boat as Hesham but being a website owner I know at times it’s hard not to have downtime. So I try not to be such a hard critic lol.
Well at least we still have blog engage to hang out at
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Twitter: tycoonblogger
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Karen,
I usually take it in stride but for some reason the Twitter outage really got to me today. Maybe it was because I was short on time today and the hour or so that I had to spend on Twitter I was not able to do anything with. They need to get better at this over capacity thing. What if Google used the same excuse, it just wouldn’t fly.
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Twitter: jsinkeywest
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Twitter was down like crazy true but that didn’t stop you from adding that cool 125 to your blog. I did get caught on the whale a few times yesterday and you would think a multi billion dollar website would never crash then you think of just the cell phone traffic, then the …. Amazing
Your rock as a friend and I trust you 100%.
I also really like the badge on your site because I know it will attract the right people sometimes small growth off awesome bloggers will pay off better then senseless expansion of nameless faceless numbers.
Oh I was tweeting from Bloggerluv just fine
I also changed you to author but you have to log in from wp-admin and I will add a nice author’s plugin. I don’t want you to write anything because I asked or you think you have to because you don’t but I hope over time you want to and trust me not many will have that option
In fact if it wasn’t for your support and friendship when I started I may not even of bothered to be honest
Thanks
John
Twitter: BlazingMinds
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Awww you’re making me blush
Thanks for making me an author over at the awesome BloggerLuv, I’ll be popping over to write a masterpiece shortly 
And thank you for all the support that you give Blazing Minds, it’s always a pleasure to know a fellow blogger who is as passionate about their work as I am
Twitter: jronaldlee
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Total Fail Whale day for me, too. I took it as a good sign to go work on other things… even if I did have a few direct messages I really hoped to send.
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Twitter: BlazingMinds
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I think it’s just a case of grin and bear it
Twitter: danalingga
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Yup, I aware of it when try to retweet some good blog post.
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Twitter: BlazingMinds
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I’ve been stopped in my tracks, trying to RT some really good posts, have to opt for StumbleUpon and others while Twitter mucks about
Twitter: techwalls
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Oh, I got this problem everyday, it seems like Twitter is really over capacity and need system upgrade at the moment.
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Twitter: BlazingMinds
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I’ve never seen so many Fail Whales as I have recently.
Twitter: bloggingjunkie
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Most of time i get error from tweetdeck of “API reached its max limit’. Well, that’s tweetdeck API problem, but if twitter want to compete with FB, they shall address, over twitting problem first and than think for competition.
Twitter: BlazingMinds
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I’ve never had the “API reached its max limit’ on TweetDeck, mind you, you are very busy
Twitter: element321
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I haven’t much of the whale lately. I haven’t tweeted much today. I have been getting the API issues though. Have to resend several times.
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Twitter: wchingya
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Same as element321 here. It does occur occasionally in past weeks but not recently though. Perhaps I’m not that active on Twitter these days.
Hopefully none of us will be seeing Mr Fail Whale any time today.. or ever.
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Twitter: BlazingMinds
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I think a major server upgrade is needed
Twitter: BlazingMinds
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I think Twitter is having a few different issues each day and the API is one of them
Twitter: john_metcalf
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A decent twitter client would handle the API errors by simply trying again a couple of minutes later until the tweet was finally posted. I only saw the fail whale a few times, but I’ve been limiting my time on the net to improve my productivity!
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Twitter: jorgensundberg
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yup, not sure what was going on yesterday but it’s good to know I’m not the only one afflicted!
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Twitter: BlazingMinds
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I’m glad I’m giving out some useful info on my bloggy
Twitter: DennisEdell
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2 days later I experience some interesting things this morning with tweetmeme.
An error message saying, “already tweeted” after 1 and not letting others through.
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Twitter: BlazingMinds
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There still seems to be issues today, that’s why I decided to add an update to the bottom of the post
Karen recently posted..Anhedonia by Recluse [Music Review]
Twitter: dtopmark
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I have had no problems but an occasion crash because to many people were tweeting at the same time and overloading site. But it’s a free service so why should we complain.
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Twitter: BlazingMinds
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You’re right it is free, but we all like to complain about something
Twitter: Shekhar_Sahu
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Whenever we have any important work then this happens.
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Twitter: BlazingMinds
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Isn’t that always the case
Karen recently posted..Anhedonia by Recluse [Music Review]
Twitter: AnthColl
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It will be the world cup.
Twitter: Ileane
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Hi Karen, I saw that awful fail whale again today as you said. I don’t think it’s because of the word cup (totally guessing here) I just think that everyone is feeding all of their stuff into Twitter from ping.fm and now the updated Tweetdeck and so on.
It’s like just about everything you sign up for lets you autopost to Twitter.
Well it’s back up now so I’m off to Tweet this post!
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Twitter: BlazingMinds
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I think we are all slowly getting used to the fail whales now
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Twitter: limey59music
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Ileane may be right, not the World Cup, just too many feeds! OOPSY!
But what better place to be visible! Still nothing comes close. BUZZ is fine, but not as convenient!
(So bad that oauth is now failing!)
Twitter: BlazingMinds
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It’s the end of the world as we know it, run for cover!!!!!
Only joking, I do miss Twitter when it’s playing though, does that mean I’m an addict? 
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Twitter: limey59music
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I think we all need treatment!
Glad I don’t have an iPhone, I’d never put it down!
Twitter: BlazingMinds
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I think if I had an iPhone it would be glued to my hand
Twitter: money_whisper
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I think that Karen is responsible because she is promoting Twitter so much on her blog so more and more people are registering after reading her posts
Twitter: BlazingMinds
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Ah, so its Karen that is causing the Twitter whale to keep appearing for me!