Recently active topics in Twitter tagged with outage

Is the Twitter/Jabber gateway broken? I have been trying for weeks to get it re-connected but it always reports that twitter@twitter.com is offline. Useless to me without this...

The current Status Blog post says:

A number of users are seeing whales (over capacity messages) this morning. We believe this is because our master database is still warming after a RAM upgrade over the weekend.

It's a database, not a toaster oven. It's serving data, not Pop-Tarts. I can't even begin to translate that statement into anything technologically intelligible. Explaining what is *actually* happening during server outages goes a long way. This, however, goes nowhere.

Please provide an actual, feasible status update for the current issue. Thank.

I keep getting continuously disconnected while trying to check via my Digsby program. Anything going on?

anyone else having issues with twitter's api (20080620 @0830 PDT). According to status.twitter.com, it should be limited to 20, but I can't even get one through. Tried via both Twhirl & Snitter.

So Twitter is down again right now... and that should by NO surprise. I'm not going to rant, bash or vent. Twitter being down on a regular basis is now "the norm" and I'm sure that it is only a temporary condition. The engineers are aware of the problem and are recaching the database or something like that.

(This is my audition post for "Twitter Spokes Model." I'm hoping they realize that I'm an excellent communicator and everybody loves me.) Twitter will be back up soon. (I actually have no idea if that's true.) Thanks for your patience.

Wed. 5/21/07 1338 PDT: So... what's up Twitter? More problems? By checking @Twitter_Status, how could I tell?