Tuesday morning randomness 3 years ago

We’d love to tell you that we know what happened this morning but we just plain don’t.  This computer stuff is hard.

What we do know is that certain users are only seeing limited updates.  Here’s what we’re going to do to try and track down the problem:

1. Do a little dance.
2. Make a little love.
3. Get down tonight.

Oh wait.  That’s not going to do it.  Shit.  Okay, seriously.  Let’s get serious for a minute.  Lord knows you people will complain if we don’t act all professional.  (Bonus for us: at least you can’t complain to us on Twitter when its down)

Okay, seriously.  Here we go.  This is what we’re going to do.  Really.  This is it:

1. Spend the day watching completely realistic movies like “Sneakers” and “Die Hard 3” to learn as much as we can about computing.  They make it look so easy in the movies.
2. Check, re-check and triple-check the “database” and “load balancer” (honestly, we’re not even sure which is which at this point).
3. Compose a lengthy status update on status.twitter.com … doh … wait … already doing that.
4. Update the Twitter Wikipedia entry to reflect on our catastrophic failure to provide any service what-so-ever.
5. Contact the Guiness Book of World Records to inquire about “Worst System Engineering Ever” record.  We’re pretty sure we’ve got a lock on it.
6. Cross our fingers.

And that’s brings us to now.  So, yeah.  Ummm.  Happy 4th of July?!

Update: My lord people.  Yes, SMS is down.  Yes, the site is slow.  You know what?  All you people that are complaining?  Why not just switch over to Pownce.  I hear they can keep a service up.  PS - we still kick their ass!  Take that Leah!