Tweets rolling in as frozen Twitter thaws out

After freezing up early this afternoon, Twitter is starting to thaw out as frustrated users tweet about the downtime.

At about 3:30 p.m. EDT today, Twitter updated users on its status page that the problem that had stymied Twitterers for a few hours today had been repaired. About half an hour earlier, many users had started reporting that their service was back up and running and tweets were no longer frozen.

At 1:50 p.m., Twitter had told users that tweets were not reaching the followers of Twitterers and that engineers were starting to deploy fixes. By 3 p.m., many users were reporting that their service was back up and running and that their tweets were no longer frozen.

The Twitter woes started between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. EDT today. Users could post tweets, which would be published on their own stream. Updates from their followers weren't showing up on usr streams.

Twitter has not disclosed what caused the problem. The microblogging company did not respond to a request for comment but noted on its Web site that engineers ware deploying fixes.

Once tweets started moving again, users were quick to vent their frustration with the lack of service today.

"twitter is frozen..." feels weird!! PRE-FRIENDS days... none of you will get this, but it's WAY TO QUIET in my world!!!! miss you all...," wrote one Twitterer. Another tweeted, "Twitter Is Frozen, which means right now, in offices all around the world, stuff is actually getting done."

Another tweet read, "Twitter was frozen in time. Really weird. I stared at my own updates for 3 hrs," while another said, "Twitter is frozen and y'all bout to lose ya minds. I'd hate to see what y'all would do if Twitter shuts down for good."

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