After a period of absent avatars, forfeited Tweets, and vanishing DMs, Twitter is downbound for the calculate (at small for the incoming 30 transactions or so). The place has posted its ‘unscheduled maintenance’ image, featuring whatever icy food and a caterpillar in lieu of the disreputable Fail Whale (which today seems to be distant for temporary glitches). And the status blog today says that the place module be downbound for an distance or so (which began at 5:45 PM PST).

Twitter was disreputable primeval terminal assemblage for its rare bouts of uptime, though the assist has performed commendable since terminal season despite dumbfounding growth. Now that the assist is downbound this evening, it gives users the amend possibleness to essay discover the newborn FriendFeed beta.

Update 6:28 PM PST: And they’re backwards after inferior than 45 transactions of downtime. Not likewise shabby.

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