I thought it might've just been me at first since I normally use Twitter to confirm if X is down for everyone else. It doesn't help that their status page shows:
It says "Twitter is taking too long to load" on mobile right now. But actually it always says that, 100% of the time, when I arrive at twitter.com on my Android phone. Yes it is down but it is always down. On mobile at least.
Right, I would love to read such posts with the forensics on what happened. But just 3-word phrase titled "posts" with zero-content should be discouraged from floating to the HN front-page.. otherwise this would be just another "reddit".
I thought Twitter was still up as my feed was loading. Looks like it's restricted to viewing user profiles. Maybe there will be a brief uptick in productivity during the outage :).
Interesting how? All that is showing is people who are awake (timezone differences and all) and aware of downdetector.com. The areas without blotches doesn't mean Twitter is up - just that not enough people have used downdetector to test Twitter in that region.
