Recovering from Streaming API issue
We experienced an outage of our streaming services from approximately 1:30-6:30 a.m. PST. Affected services included stream.twitter.com, betastream.twitter.com. All services now recovering.
Twitter Status
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We experienced an outage of our streaming services from approximately 1:30-6:30 a.m. PST. Affected services included stream.twitter.com, betastream.twitter.com. All services now recovering.
Some features are intermittently not available on Twitter at this time.
- Ability to Follow a user
- Follow counts
- Sending DMs
Twitter is working to resolve this issue in full.
UPDATE Sep 28th, 2010 4:01pm: These features are recovering.
We are currently experiencing delays sending Tweets to Facebook and are actively working on the issue. In the mean time, we are disabling this feature.
UPDATE Sep 28th, 2010 2:30pm: The issue is resolved.
A malicious link is making the rounds that will post a tweet to your account when clicked on. Twitter has disabled the link, and is currently resolving the issue.
UPDATE Sun Sep 26 18:41:49 UTC 2010: We’ve fixed the exploit and are in the process of removing the offending Tweets.
We’ve identified and are patching a XSS attack; as always, please message @safety if you have info regarding such an exploit.
We expect the patch to be fully rolled out shortly and will update again when it is.
Update (6:50 PDT, 13:50 UTC): The exploit is fully patched.
We temporarily disabled the “Who To Follow” feature yesterday, 9/19, and are working on restoring it as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience.
Update: Tue Sep 21 21:03:05 UTC 2010: Who To Follow has been restored.
We have temporarily disabled the “Who To Follow” feature and will be restoring it as soon as possible.
Update at 5:24 PM: “Who To Follow” has been restored.
We have taken dev.twitter.com down for maintenance. We are working to bring it back up.
Update at 8:36 PM: dev.twitter.com is back up.
Results from tweet search are delayed several hours and we are working on the underlying problem.
Update at 9:18 PM: This issue has been resolved. Search results are back to normal.
We are investigating reports of users receiving invalid responses from the API.
Update at 11:59 AM: This issue has been resolved.
We are performing some scheduled maintenance on the site; you may experience periods of elevated errors.
Update at 7:37PM: Maintenance is complete.
Users using certain Twitter clients are unable to Log in.
These clients include
We are working to resolve this issue.
Update at 7:30PM: This issue has been resolved.
