Something is technically wrong on Twitter

Many users on twitter are seeing this message on Twitter. There seems to be many issues since twitter rolled out the "Retweet" feature. Twitter facing high number of errors.

Something is technically wrong.

Thanks for noticing—we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon.

Here is the message on twitter status blog

Working on high number of errors 1 day ago

We’ve been contending with an elevated number of errors since late last night. We’ve ruled out a number of causes of this problem but are still working to reduce the number of errors on the site.

Update (12:35p): We’re continuing to make changes and are seeing errors return to more acceptable levels.

As a action toward reducing the number of errors, twitter team has decided to disable the Retweet feature temporarily.

Retweet feature temporarily disabled 1 day ago

We’re working on a few problems related to the ongoing rollout. These should be resolved quickly and it will be back on for those who had the Retweet feature previously. And we’ll then continue the incremental rollout of this feature to everyone.

Twitter should not be rolling out any new features unless they are able to fix the reliability issues with this application. Millions of users are online using the Twitter and such issues are going to benefit other Competitors like Jaiku from Google. Jaiku provides twitter like functionality in much organized way.

One tweet I Surely don't like - Twitter is over Capacity

Have you seen your twitter page show like this? "Twitter is over capacity. Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again." Are you getting annoyed by this message? Don’t worry, you are not alone. This is certainly one of the hottest discussion in web.

Lately, Twitter has been down more than the sea level. You may have seen this more often if you have tried changing your profile picture or background picture on twitter.

What does it mean in technical terms?
How Twitter can resolve this problem?
Why Twitter is overloaded?





What does it mean in technical terms?

You are getting this message because you are being redirected to Twitter’s 503 page (Service Unavailable page).
An HTTP status code 503(Service Unavailable) indicates that twitter Web server is currently unable to handle the request because of a temporary overload or maintenance of the server.

Why Twitter is overloaded?

Many people are trying to understand "Why Twitter is having so many issues":

Here are few possible reasons we can think of

1. 1. Scalability of underlying framework they have used (Ruby on Rails).
   
2. Too many automated users are spamming and fewer are Genuine users. Does Twitter need to put more storng limits for automated users?
   
3. Twitter has become the Short Messaging Service of the Internet. Due to its 140 characters per post, and millions of users are using it these days. This could possibly be the biggest reason.
   

How Twitter can resolve this problem?

Twitter needs to explore all possible options to scale up their application this could be some options like

1. Scale up and get more hardware?
2. Reduce the limit of automated tweets.
3. Act fast & hard on spammers.

I have seen this page once or twice every week on twitter & I am sure many other people are seeing this more and more. Twitter needs to find out a way to scale up their application otherwise people are going to hate it and its going to be dead in coming few months or so.

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