Second Haiti Earthquake (2010-01-20 11:03 UTC) mag 6.0

Twitter 'over capacity' within minutes and for hours after.

[g1smd]

As if they haven't had enough already, now another big quake has struck.

Those people relying on Twitter for details are blocked. Site has been 'over capacity' since the quake.

[g1smd]

Even [search.twitter.com...] has died, with the last listed messages now well over an hour old.

This looks like an event that has killed twitter's hardware.

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According to twitter

'Whales' [status.twitter.com]

We are experiencing an outage due to an extremely high number of whales. Our on-call team is working on a fix.

[engine]

Strong aftershock shakes Haiti [news.bbc.co.uk]

strong aftershock has rocked Haiti, sending screaming people running into the streets, eight days after another quake devastated the country.

The extent of the damage is not yet known. The magnitude 6.1 tremor struck north-west of Port-au-Prince at 0603 local time (1103 GMT).

[StoutFiles]

They're currently saying it didn't do much in terms of death, as rubble just stayed rubble and many people were already out of dangerous areas.

[sem4u]

This is terrible news...the people of Haiti have suffered far too much already :(

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Twitter said [status.twitter.com]:

Update (5:18a): We are recovering from this incident. A sudden failure coupled with problems in switching to a backup system produced a high number of errors for around 90 minutes. This made the site largely inaccessible. No data was lost or compromised during this outage.

It looks unrelated.

However an aftershock is what they don't need. I feel very sorry for the people in Haiti.