Twitter's Server Problems Force it to Remove #NewTwitter, Trends

If you signed on to Twitter this morning and noticed that “Trends” was empty, don’t panic: it’s all part of the plan. Well, it doesn’t appear so much a “plan” as a frantic reaction to server problems that have caused multiple issues for nearly all Twitter users.

Late yesterday, Twitter began going down or displaying an error page for a significant number of users. As time went on, the Twitter status blog noted that these elevated error rates were quickly followed by problems displaying some users’ timelines.