Twitter experienced "unexpected" downtime on Saturday, and in order to recover from the problem the company will have to implement measures that affect third-party applications that use the Twitter API.
Twitter acknowledged the problems on its official Twitter Status blog at around 1 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time, saying the company was "actively working" to bring the site back after it went down unexpectedly.
In an update to that post at around 1:15 p.m., the company said it was recovering from the downtime and "looking into the external causes."
A few minutes after 2 p.m., the company announced that the API that external Twitter applications use will be offline as part of the recovery process. An hour later, Twitter's site seemed to be working normally, based on checks from IDG News Service, but third-party applications may continue to be affected.
More: http://computerworld.com/s/article/9136699/
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Twitter acknowledged the problems on its official Twitter Status blog at around 1 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time, saying the company was "actively working" to bring the site back after it went down unexpectedly.
In an update to that post at around 1:15 p.m., the company said it was recovering from the downtime and "looking into the external causes."
A few minutes after 2 p.m., the company announced that the API that external Twitter applications use will be offline as part of the recovery process. An hour later, Twitter's site seemed to be working normally, based on checks from IDG News Service, but third-party applications may continue to be affected.
More: http://computerworld.com/s/article/9136699/
