Twitter client TweetDeck experienced an outage this morning, sending reporters of all stripes into a panic that they might miss an embarrassing Trump tweet or the latest teen trend finally making its way to the social network.
The Twitter-owned app was down for 60–90 minutes, but users could still access Twitter.com in their browsers. However, many members of the media use TweetDeck’s column view and ability to easily show multiple Twitter lists on one screen to complete day-to-day work. Many of those columns appeared blank, or only updated tweets after a long delay. Sending tweets was also disabled for some users.
lol when tweetdeck is down the old-school web users are finally king
— emily (((dreyfuss))) (@EmilyDreyfuss) July 16, 2015
Dear @TweetDeck: WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME.
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) July 16, 2015
Using Twitter dot com instead of Tweetdeck feels like going back to 1999 internet
— Owen Williams ⚡️ (@ow) July 16, 2015
I can't do news under these conditions. #tweetdeck #fail pic.twitter.com/Qykvd6fKyK
— Kirsten Boyd (@Kirsten__Boyd) July 16, 2015
Tweetdeck barely working. Back to using Twitter dot com like a goddamn neanderthal
— Seth Fiegerman (@sfiegerman) July 16, 2015
guys tweetdeck is fine pic.twitter.com/U36csAvp6f
— Owen Williams ⚡️ (@ow) July 16, 2015
@ow i'm so hate you pic.twitter.com/fPm0Nv7vte
— Andrey Frolov (@faddei_frodo) July 16, 2015
TweetDeck acknowledged the problem about an hour into the problem, with a tweet, of course.
Some TweetDeck users may be experiencing issues Tweeting and loading Tweets. We're currently working on a fix.
— TweetDeck (@TweetDeck) July 16, 2015
TweetDeck was back up and running by 8:30 Pacific for many users.