Foursquare up and running after outages
Amazon EC2 server outage caused foursquare to be down for almost 4 hours on May 4th, most of you might have seen this image of a weeping Princess on Foursquare website (similar to the Fail Whale image displayed when Twitter is down). The issue has been resolved and the Foursquare app, website and APIs are all back up and running. Foursquare did a great job of constantly updating the status of the issue on its twitter account, @foursquare also @replied to over 250+ people who tweeted to foursquare about the issue during the 4 hours (6:00pm to 9:30pm PST). Here are the updates foursquare sent out on twitter:
Hey all, looks like we’re down again for a few. Amazon EC2’s Virginia cloud is having problems:http://status.aws.amazon.com Stay tuned.
5:57 PM May 4th via web
Outage update: Power restored to Amazon EC2’s Virginia data center, but we’re still waiting to connect to our machines. Stay tuned.
6:47 PM May 4th via web
Update from @harryh & @nathanfolkman: Machines are slowly coming back online. Stay tuned. (and send those guys some love! They’re hustling!)
7:33 PM May 4th via web
Update from @harryh & @nathanfolkman: Things slowly coming back up. Things will look like they’re working before they actually start working
8:00 PM May 4th via web
Update Servers slowly coming back alive. Remember, we’re not 100% there yet, so while some things work, others may appear wonky for a bit.
8:43 PM May 4th via web
Outage Update: Website is back to 95%, API (and all the mobile apps) slowly crawling back. Special shoutouts to @harryh & @nathanfolkman!
9:02 PM May 4th via web
Alright people, looks like we’re back to 100%! Go & get your checkins on! (and send some love to @harryh & @nathanfolkman for their hustle!)
9:11 PM May 4th via web
A’ight friends, I am headed to bed. Thx for all your patiences during the outage! (Android/BB/Palm users, restart and you should be okay!)
9:32 PM May 4th via web
I guess few people during this down time actually started using the “poor man’s check-in” process: people tweeting in similar style to a tweet sent out after a foursquare check-in. Funny, shows how serious some people are about registering their check-ins.
Btw, love seeing all these “poor man’s checkins” from people while we’re done… people tweeting in the same style as a 4SQ checkin. Ha!
7:04 PM May 4th via web
