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When Twitter is down... people tweet on Facebook

Twitter's significant outage Thursday sent users onto Facebook, Flickr and elsewhere to comment in short messages and pics.

  1. #Twitter #TwitterDown
    Jamie Wood
    ·
    Thu, Jul 26 2012 09:53:43

  2. Twitter is back -- to the relief of many

  3. almostachemist
    Matt L.@almostachemist
    Twitter app back and running. #breathe
    Thu, Jul 26 2012 10:35:18

  4. But the outage was significant, and buzz exploded -- everywhere but Twitter, of course

  5. Twitter is currently down for <%= reason %>.
    Jeff K. Ward
    ·
    Thu, Jul 26 2012 09:44:54

  6. Especially on Facebook

  7. Khoo Kah Lee
    Khoo Kah Lee
    Why you are reading this? Because Twitter its down.
    Thu, Jul 26 2012 09:16:08
  8. Lorne Pike
    Twitter? Having technical problems?? Impossible.
    Thu, Jul 26 2012 08:59:49
  9. Aaron Haugabrook
    Aaron Haugabrook
    Since Twitter is down ... Follow me on Tumblr! youngkillaking.tumblr.com/
    Thu, Jul 26 2012 09:17:22
  10. Zafran Zulkifli
    Zafran Zulkifli
    this my first fb status in a million years, only because twitter is down currently.
    Thu, Jul 26 2012 09:16:30
  11. Gadgetbooth
    ·
    Thu, Jul 26 2012 09:18:05

  12. The latest on the cause cites a worldwide outage, but still no cause

  13. Twitter Down After Gchat Blackout On July 26
    UPDATE 4: Twitter appears to be back up, for us at least. (As well as TechCrunch.) Both mobile and the normal web version are loading for...
    huffingtonpost.com
  14. mashable
    Pete Cashmore@mashable
    Twitter Goes Down, Comes Back Slowly for Some - on.mash.to/NYicFh
    Thu, Jul 26 2012 09:34:29

  15. Funny: Hundreds clicked the Tweet button on Twitter's status page saying the service was down. Why? Because it's there. 

  16. Screen Shot 2012-07-26 at 9.24.52 AM
    Storify
    ·
    Wed, Jul 25 2012 17:00:00
  17. Sugar Jones
    Sugar Jones
    I just spent the last five minutes trying to figure out what was wrong with my computer, router, and internet connection. Turns out, Twitter is down. Perfect use of the line, "It's not me... it's you."
    Thu, Jul 26 2012 09:13:33
  18. Wordpress
    ·
    Thu, Jul 26 2012 10:03:58
  19. Dean La Douceur
    Dean La Douceur
    USA Today asks: "But if you write a story about Twitter being down, but you can't Tweet it out, does the story really exist?"
    Thu, Jul 26 2012 09:16:51
  20. Rebecca Regnier
    Rebecca Regnier
    Twitter's down but no fail whale? I miss the fail whale. I mean if it has to fail let's at least have a cartoon?
    Thu, Jul 26 2012 09:13:46
  21. Robert Cuba III
    Robert Cuba III
    Twitter down this can't be life
    Thu, Jul 26 2012 09:15:46
  22. Nirain Singh
    Nirain Singh
    "Hold on I'm tweeting about twitter being down."
    Thu, Jul 26 2012 09:15:51
  23. My life at the moment.
    Celia
    ·
    Thu, Jul 26 2012 09:49:13
  24. Jim Andrew
    Jim Andrew
    Here is the awesome message I got when trying to go to Twitter: Twitter is currently down for <%= reason %>. We expect to be back in <%= deadline %>
    Thu, Jul 26 2012 09:16:02
  25. Twitter is down :(
    marthastewartlovesyou
    ·
    Wed, Jul 25 2012 17:00:00

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Social media journalist. Social lead at SFGate, online arm of The San Francisco Chronicle. Former marketing director at Storify. Former syndicated newspaper columnist. Studied social media at Stanford. Led social for Fortune 50. Met Johnny Cash.

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