Twitter appears to be gradually coming back online after an outage this morning that lasted at least a half-hour for many users. Maybe this is their way of reminding us how central the service has become to the way many of us communicate online.
“That. Was. Agony. #TwitterColdTurkey,” tweeted TV personality Piers Morgan, reflecting the sentiment of many.
Did anyone out there retreat to Facebook or take another look at Google+?
Ironically, of course, the service wasn’t able to keep users updated on Twitter itself, but the company did post an update on its status page: “Users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue.”
No word yet on the cause of the outage.