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Twitter down; Congress survives
Twitter was down for most users on Thursday afternoon, but Congress — which likely comprises some of the most prolific tweeters in the country — managed to survive.
"I actually tweet most in the evening, so hopefully it will be restored by today," Polis added.
Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), who calls himself a bit of a Twitter "addict," said he also managed to miss the outage.
"I saw on Twitter that there had been an outage," he told The Hill. "I'd actually been catching up some work, so I hadn't been trying to tweet."
But he still remembers the last time Twitter went down.
"I felt a little naked," he said of the previous outage. "But I didn't notice this one, which is probably good."
Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (Md.) noticed Twitter was down, but the service was working again in time to hold a planned Twitter town hall.
Twitter is back online, so the town hall with @House Democrats on extending middle class tax cuts will go forward at 2:30pm ET #AskDems
— Steny Hoyer (@WhipHoyer) July 26, 2012
At the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), digital coordinator Nick Marcelli tweeted a call-back to a previous GOP Twitter campaign for the hashtag #doingfine, a play on President Obama's comment last month that the private sector is “doing just fine” on job growth.
Twitter is #doingfine today. #tcot
— Nick Marcelli (@NickMarcelli) July 26, 2012
Twitter went down for about an hour and a half earlier in the day. The microblogging service informed users trying to reach Twitter pages that they were working on the problem but did not provide details. The Twitter Status page was also unavailable for some users. Twitter later apologized for the outage, the second service failure so far his summer. The last outage, in June, disrupted political tweeting, as well.
Story originally posted at 1:25 p.m. and since updated.
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