Twitter goes titsup Microbabble platform Twitter is suffering a global outage due to an unknown service disruption. Twitter has been hobbled by a handful of issues today, with its web, mobile, and API service dropping offline from just after 8:00am this morning. The tiny bird claimed to have reported the outage by tweeting from their @support …
Who broke it? Don't make me come over there?
Oh, I think I know why.
Jeremy Clarkson must have been buried under tweets and hashtags after Chris Evans could not handle the very sympathetic Sabine Schmitz doing what she's good at: haring around the Nürburgring Ring track at speeds that are physically close to impossible (she's the one who came close to beating Jeremy Clarkson's Jaguar S type speed around it using nothing more than a Ford Transit van, just to give you some idea). Doing that with an Audi R8v10 seems to have been too much for Evans who lost his lunch (thankfully not in the car).
If I were Jeremy, I'd be thinking of a different German word:
Schadenfreude :)
Er, she beat Clarkson's time in the diesel Jag in a Transit van!
The one who's really embarrassed must be the chap who'd booked the track day for his Porsche 911. You can clearly see him and the plates on the car as she drives around the outside of him on a corner in the Transit. I'll bet he still gets the piss taken to this day.
Lots of people on other sites taking the piss out of Evans, but they need to remember, even professional co-drivers in Rally cars occasionally get car sick. Being in a car that is being thrown about by a good (or even bad) driver is quite the experience, and much much worse than driving it yourself, and I do speak from experience.
The tiny bird claimed to have reported the outage by tweeting from their @support account on Twitter, which nobody was able to see due as Twitter was down.
As good as phoning up your broadband provider when there's an outage and listening to the message, over and over and over, stating you can log the problem via their website
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Pity it will not last, having Ark B offline should improve the overall humanity IQ by a few points. Now if we could have both F***book and Tw*tter offline for just a few days... Adding Linked in for good measure would be nice too.
Not for any other reasons - I just want to observe the withdrawal symptoms. Popcorn please...
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Our business twitter is working fine on my compy (did have the failbot all of this morning) but my colleague still has naught.
Not that i'd generally notice.
To be honest, I'd notice even less if Google+ went down...
Escape, because we've escaped twitter if only for a morning..
::tiredly::
I have never stated that I single-handedly built TheInternet(whatever THAT means). However, I was an engineering student at Stanford and Berkeley in the mid '70s and '80s, and did contribute. As did many other people.
Why do people like you insist on putting words in my mouth/keybr0ad? Inferiority complex?
Show kennel. Whippits, Greyhounds and Wolfhounds. Inherited from my Grand Parents. We don't race, but we do attend lure coursing events, and of course between the dawgs & I, we WILL eventually eliminate all the fscking ground squirrels on the property. Hopefully. Those little bastards seem to procreate five or six times faster than rabbits!
It is like the bit where they are in a massive storm so the Captain takes them underwater for a "few blessed hours of peace" and Lt Werner half-clambers onto his bunk and passes out.
Well a bit like that; niche I know.
(Is it back up yet? Not that I give a sh*t.)
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