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Twitter is down; sadly, no Fail Whale
Posted by Joe Allen-Black
July 26, 2012 11:44 AM
Twitter users have been experiencing problems sending their 140-character messages this morning. Sadly, the site isn't loading at all, so we're not even getting the fun Fail Whale image. Twitter has not given a reason for the apparent outage.
According to the popular microblogging service:
Users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue.
So, do you think you'll use this extra time you would have spent on Twitter to be more productive in the office? Or do you think you'll just spend more time on Facebook?
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