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 frustrated? Don’t worry, you are not alone. This is one of the hottest discussion in web.
In Technical Term: You are getting this message because you are being redirected to Twitter’s 503 page (503 Service Unavailable page).
An HTTP status code 503(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 server is overloaded?
Sometimes twitter traffic is very rapidly and its Web server is unable to handle rapid amount of request in very short period of time (server temporary overload). Hence you a re getting “Twitter is over capacity. Too many tweets!….”.
So, why twitter server is overload? Twitter has become the SMS of the Internet. Because of its restricted 140 characters per post, It has become the hottest thing in social networking. Every one from big companies, to CEO’s (@ExecTweets) to youngsters’ uses Twitter. According to Forrester estimates around 5 people use Twitter, this causes overload.
What is the Fix?
Ultimately Twitter has to fix it’s overload issue. Till then, relax for few minutes before start tweeting (hopefully no server temp overload at that time).
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This error message getting really annoying. I hope it gets resolved soon.
30 days later & still getting Twitter is Over Capacity
Still getting it! It sucks
Great page. doesn’t really help though at all.
A bit like a “Why won’t my car start?” page that informs me “Your car is old and broken. Once you get a new car it will start just fine!”
Don’t really give a c*** about twitter.. But a prospective employee has it, and looking for insight pertaining to his personality.. This could be the end all of his opportunity right here, but I can’t get his page up..
i can’t change my twitpic because of this! ergh
Twitter needs to fix this problem before they lose a lot of people. Facebook has never said this to me before..hmmm…something to think about.
fierly the mesasge is shown however the picture is changed! look @ it!
lol its a bug and it sucks, i hate bugs in famous sites like youtube & others.. like if they dont spend a cent paying a competent programmer..
It is one thing to be over capacity – every once in a while – but at 6 AM?? and for almost a week?? I am to the point that I am going to try Google Buzz and reload Facebook… there is nothing LIKE twitter except when there is NO twitter AT ALL!! — then… one must see what other social networking options exist. THIS PROBLEM, I PREDICT, WILL BE THE DEATH OF TWITTER…. IT IS GOING TO DIE…. because they can’t solve an over load problem… and build greater capacity…. people will use other alternatives…
Well It’s July now and still no help…yesterday i got to change my pic but when i went to change it again…over capacity!
Twitter get some gosh darn help already! Please?!
I can’t change my twit pic either. The message comes up and says “wait a moment and try again.” I’ve waited many moments, in fact I’ve tried every day for the past week and I’m still getting the same message.
How is twitter overloaded at 2 in the morning and why does twitter’s over capacity problem affect me changing my profile picture?
I guess I just don’t understand.
All I know is that I have never had this problem with any other social networking system, and if twitter doesn’t get this fixed soon….
This is rather ridiculous, its actually impossible to even as much as set an account up under these conditions. I think the timeouts would be OK, if Twitter was set up to actually retain your data and send you back a page rather than the current disconnected and irrevertable 503 page.