Twitter is down and fail whales abound.
Some users have experienced problems loading the service since about 1:30 ET. Twitter announced that it is aware of the situation on its status log: "We are currently experiencing site stability issues. There may be intermittent issues loading twitter.com. We’re working to fix it as soon as possible," the post says.
This is the latest in a long history of outages on the social network. Last July the company vowed to improve its reliability, citing an upcoming move to a dedicated data center of its own.
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