Twitter Outage Used to do Upgrades, New Design Being Tested

by Thord Daniel Hedengren

July 18, 2008

Twitter experienced an unplanned outage, and is down and out for maintenance. They are using this outage to upgrade the affected database, according to a blog post. The service is still down, but hopefully we’ll be getting our microblogging cravings satisfied soon.

Speaking of Twitter, they have apparently tested a new design on select users. SheGeeks and TechCrunch have got screenshots.

Thord Daniel Hedengren

Thord Daniel Hedengren is a designer, writer, and blogger, and also the former editor of The Blog Herald. He used to be a hotshot in the gaming industry in Sweden, but sold everything and went International. Most recently he wrote a book called Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog, and does loads of kickass design.