CDG Interactive Blog

So Twitter was down and out for a couple of hours this morning, leaving many users shocked, saddened and stressed. Well, surprised anyway.

Because Twitter's growth has skyrocketed in 2009, this means a significant number of accounts were created in the blissful recent period during which the service has actually been pretty stable. These folks know not of the fail whale.

But the old timers just sigh and experience a little deja vu.

After all, Twitter was so notoriously unstable in the early days, that the site IsTwitterDown was created to, well, answer the question everyone was asking.

So the next time you feel tweet-blocked, kids, now you know how to quickly find out if it's just you. (There's also the official Twitter Status page which has more details, but less zen simplicity.)

Graphic Credit: Original creator Yiying Lu