g1smd - 3:16 pm on Aug 6, 2009 (gmt 0)

When my Twitter Client failed to send new messages, I checked via the web, and the connection timed out every time.

I forgot about status.twitter.com but pingdom told me all that I needed to know: 21 seconds to load a single HTML page that contained no images, CSS or scripts.

Interestingly, sites like the BBC are reporting that "traffic is 4% down on normal" for the last hour or so. Is that the percentage of traffic to their site that they get from viral Twitter click-throughs? [news.bbc.co.uk...]

Strangely, some of the bots that I have running are not returning error messages when accessing Twitter search; I'm not sure if Twitter is returning blank pages or real data for those.