Weird. All night we have seen TweetMeme up and down on our blog. But it seems its finally out for the count at around 10 PM. It’s dead at Mashable and Twitter has “Tweetmeme Down” as a trending topic. It also seems like they are also getting lots of Tweet spam sent to the @tweetmeme account. No major words form other blogs about what is going on. Thankfully we have enabled BackTypes Retweet WordPress Plugin, a very capable competitior to Tweetmeme. We suggest you give them a shot. In the meantime we will update this post as the news develops.

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Update #1

Tweetmeme finally has message to users:

The Tweetmeme status blog notes the following: “The main site is currently still down, but we have identified the issue and will be back and fully operational soon.”

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Update # 2

The Tweetmeme status blog now notes the following: “We’re currently in holding, which means buttons are temporarily paused and the site is unavailable – we’ll be back and running smoothly as soon as we can.”

Funny- main updates come from Tweetmeme at their blog, not via Twitter.

Update #3
Still no “major” blog reporting the Tweetmeme outage. We will update in the morning when we learn what happened or any other important updates. You can follow Tweetmeme status here until then. We wish the Tweetmeme team good luck on getting back up. Its a great tool and wish them a speedy recovery.

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Update# 4

Early this morning (February 6th) Tweetmeme came back online. The Tweetmeme status blog reports:

“We have identified the problem that caused the general outage on Friday 5th February and applied a fix. The buttons, API and site are now all fully functional again.

Button counts may still be lagged as we restore our data processing systems to full strength and process the back-log. No tweets have been lost, we expect they will be attributed to your buttons within several hours.

Just to clarify, this was a fault with our internal systems. There has been no security breach and no data has been lost or jeopardized.”

We’re glad to see Tweetmeme back up and running…