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"Twitter warned us that more downtime was likely in light of record usage surrounding the World Cup; this afternoon, more downtime has arrived, with fail whales being the only thing available at Twitter.com as of around 6:20pm ET.\nOn the bright side, Twitter is already on top of the issue this time around, writing on their status blog that \"Twitter is unavailable. Engineering and ops are responding.\"  In addition to warning about downtime, the company recently outlined some of the steps it is taking to deal with ongoing performance issues.\nWhile we wait for Twitter to return, feel free to use our comments section to let us know what you're up to!\nUpdate: Twitter seems to be back online at of 7:00pm ET.\n\nFor more social media coverage, follow Mashable Social Media on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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