Twitter is running slowly or not at all today as apparently the Christmas holiday brings out the tweet in all of us. I’ve been met with an outdated timeline or an “over capacity” graphic (see below) throughout the day. … Read entire article »

As expected, and after the disastrous attempt at rolling out updates to Facebook pages, we’re quietly seeing those features trickle in. Today I noticed two new features in page management. First, clicking the “Account” drop-down, now offers a “Manage Pages” option, which will bring up a window showing you all the pages you admin. During the failed rollout, this was called “Switch Accounts” which apparently Facebook decided was misleading. The other feature I noticed today was how the insights are shown for all pages. I’m not sure this is the look Facebook had in mind, and I’m guessing it will be changed. The small page icon looks so lonely, and it seems like there is a lot of empty space on the screen. What appears to be missing today (12/23/10) is the option to … Read entire article »

Skype is apparently experiencing a widespread outage this morning. Calls are being sent straight to voicemail, and the “call” button is grayed out for skype-to-skype and skype-to-phone calls. … Read entire article »

It seems as though Facebook might be trying to implement those updates that crashed their site yesterday. Currently, home pages are showing up blank, buttons aren’t working, and other little hints that something is going on over there. Hard to say why they don’t just wait until the middle of the night when the traffic is at its lowest peak, but maybe the FB gods need their weekend time, too. Worthy of noting is that when you view a friend’s profile, the “send message” and “poke” buttons at the top right are new. It could mean that they are going to slowly roll out all of the new features instead of all at once like yesterday. As of 12:33pm PT, the site seems to be giving random errors, the same way the … Read entire article »

While updating a Facebook page today – literally AS I was working on it – the page started to change before my eyes. And this was all just labor pains as the social media goliath tumbled into a widespread outage today. I was adding a second store hours to the “Additional Info” field – and that field disappeared when I tried to save. Twitter immediately lit up with people wondering what was going on. With Facebook now accounting for as much as 10% of ALL internet activity, an outage is a big deal. And for those of us who do business on Facebook, it can be nailbiting waiting for its return. Prior to the blackout, I did notice some new features. Some I liked, and some I didn’t. These were mostly focused … Read entire article »