Twitter users have been outraged after services failed for a few hours on Thursday, but there are still reports of the Fail Whale surfacing on occasion. The problems started around 9am Pacific Time (5pm UT) and, after service resumption, it failed again around 90 minutes later. As we post this piece just before 2pm Pacific …

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Thursday 21st June 2012 21:33 GMT andreas koch

Twitter fail:

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So what?

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1. Thursday 21st June 2012 21:47 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Don't panic Mr Mainwaring, don't panic!
  
  Outrage over outage?
  
  Just go chill for a bit, it's not as though the worlds going to end!
  
  It is, really? 2 minutes? Oh no, what can I do for 2 minutes befor........................
  
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Thursday 21st June 2012 21:55 GMT Jeebus

Nothing of value is posted on Twitter, ever. An outage makes no difference.

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Thursday 21st June 2012 22:07 GMT Gulfie

OK so find somebody that cares

Social diorreah site goes down. OMG send in the TA.

Please, get a life. Twitter content is not news. Twitter going down? That t really ISN'T news.

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Thursday 21st June 2012 22:23 GMT Inventor of the Marmite Laser

Meh

Thats all

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Friday 22nd June 2012 02:30 GMT Sureo

Headline: Twitter tit runs dry, frenzied twitlets lash about in agony...

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Friday 22nd June 2012 11:33 GMT You have not yet created a handle

SLA

"Twitter users have been outraged after services failed for a few hours on Thursday"

Users expect a 100% uptime SLA...And that's what they should get with all the money they pay for the service..... Oh, wait a minute.

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Friday 22nd June 2012 11:44 GMT Wize

"...has claimed responsibility for the outage."

Reminds me of the start of Long Dark Teatime of the Soul - Douglas Adams.

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