Sitting on the first page of Twitter this morning was a short message that has (thankfully) replaced the doom and gloom messages about the pagination and IM features being unavailable:
"Check out the Twitter Status blog for ongoing updates about the service."
It's good to see that Twitter is trying to communicate it's problems more. For example, the first post explains that the API request limit has been lowered to 30 requests an hour and that pagination has been partially restored:
Pagination partially restored
Most users will be able to paginate through older updates, but you may run into some situations where the Older links are not available. We’re continuing to work on restoring pagination for everyone.
IM is still offline but we are currently testing some fixes that enable the restoration of that service.
IM and Pagination are disabled, API limited
Due to excessive database load, we have disabled pagination on the web and IM updates. Also, we’ve lowered the API request limit to 30 requests per hour. We are working to restore.
While I'm sure everyone would rather Twitter not have to have a status blog and keep Twitter running 24/7, when it does go down we at least now know the problem.
This is one blog that I hope doesn't update very much as Twitter runs better in the future.
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