Twitter experiencing timeline delays

Twitter’s expe­ri­enc­ing some “time­line delays” this morn­ing that make it feel like you’re Tweeting into the void, Peter Kafka notes on his Media Memo blog. I’ve heard a cou­ple sim­i­les this morn­ing that fit pretty well. First: We’re all, indi­vid­u­ally, the sole sur­vivors of the Twit-pocalypse, wind­ing our way through a depop­u­lated but still func­tional Twittersphere. Second: Twitter has intro­duced instances, like World of Warcraft’s instances. Each user expe­ri­ences his or her own ver­sion of Twitter that’s unique to them.

Silly stuff, and a bit of an incon­ve­nience, but Kafka notes that this isn’t unusual. In fact, bugs and down­time like this used to hap­pen to Twitter a lot. It’s just that, with more peo­ple using Twitter, the company’s under a lot more pres­sure now to get things working.

Related posts:

1. Hypertext Timeline
2. A fright­en­ing idea: Twitter becomes the News System of the World
3. How I learned my Internet was down from Twitter
4. Why Twitter Will Endure
5. Twitter-pated