Twitter Down Again, This Time It’s Their Fault

This is getting a bit boring, but here we go again… Twitter is down. Unlike last night, tonight they are saying that today’s service interruption is their fault. On the developer group, developer Alex Payne explains why the service is down currently, "We had another brief cache outage, reverted that deploy, and then killed the load balancer at our managed host.  We’re working with our hosting provider to bring everything back up.  Hang tight, and sincere apologies. "

Earlier this year we highlighted 10 excellent ideas on how to use the time when Twitter is down. Tonight Dave Winer is looking for feedback on Twitter’s outage on FriendFeed.

Update: 6:45pm Eastern – Twitter is back in what I am calling "recovery mode" – I hope it’s not like Windows recovery mode!

Here are some new ideas on how to use the time:

1. consider loading up Pownce – it’s like stocking up on bread and milk when a storm is coming
2. go buy the sarah lacy Web 2.0 book on amazon or grab a 40% off coupon and get it at borders
3. install new ink in your printer
4. open the pc and dust it
5. go get a pizza and a beer
6. check out our great sponsors who keep CN running