why is twitter stuck?

Is it likely to be resolved any time soon? I am hugely unhappy. Hugely. Devastated, some might say.

VonBon, I feel your pain. But I dont even Twitter itself could have anticipated how quickly it would become such a "necessary" part of our daily activities.. Let's entreat the universe with our plight, and maybe, just maybe, we can get back to Twitness As Usual!

:(

I'm wondering if it's browser specific - I'm managing to update via IE but not firefox.

by twitter being stuck do you mean you can't see other people's tweets in your timeline, but can tweet and get notifications on your phone? that's what's been happening at my end for about an hour now

Getting 500 Error responses when I try to update

For me in Firefox I click the entry field, complete it and hit update and nothing happens then the browser says it's done loading. In IE I can update but I haven't had an update in over an hour from any of my friends list and that's not normal.

My timeline has been frozen for an hour.
If I go to someones direct profile page, I can see tweets as normal - although most have stopped tweeting knowing something is wrong.
Going to the Everyone page shows tweets updating as normal, but the Home page timeline of all my friends is dead.

I haven't gotten failwhale yet but I assume that's the next thing coming

Tried IE, but get "Something is technically wrong" after a login, so that's not a workaround for me, unfortunately.

I just created a new question, but prob best to follow this one.

I can create a new update and it appears, but I can't see anyone else's updates. Has twitter blown up??

Twitter doesn't post anything, and doesn't display new messages either. Tweetdeck also says "problem contacting twitter"

Same with Digsby

My home page has just started to update and on Tweetdeck as well, maybe it was "having a moment"

When I open TweetDeck, my All Tweets column is blank. Same on the Twitter web site for me, my home tab is completely blank; but my replies tab in both TweetDeck and on the web have replies in it from last nite. So something is clearly wrong. Hope they can get it fixed soon.

It's worse, I now have a lot of dups: in Firefox and Digsby I get an error, but the tweets apparently went through, as I can see in IE. Then, I try in IE and the tweet doesn't get through? arrghhh... leave alone a while I guess. Just to make sure you don't send out a lot of dupes.

Ok, looks like I was slightly premature with my "everything is fine" reply. Looks like my home page is stuck now on the same tweet which happen 2o mins ago

tkpleslie here:

stuck, too. nothing coming through for almost an hour and a half, but got 1 @reply 13 minutes ago.nothing else and was involved in several conversations.

Since Wednesday they've been integrating a new database. Some people on some nodes (random which one you're on) can post while most can't. There only two ways out this: Everyone stop posting for an hour to let all the DB's catch up OR Twitter does a fail whale which stops everyone posting and the DB catches up.

maybe its lagging because they are improving the security issues... maybe.

twitter is back and working now !!!