Twitter "Unscheduled Maintenance"

I just run into a second nasty experience with Twitter. It wasn't that they are over capacity, they now call it "unscheduled maintenance". Thank god, I thought they were over capacity =S



I prefer the whale (or maybe a functional Twitter website?)

Twitter over capacity?

I just had a nasty surprise when trying to update my status on Twitter:



Strange (there's a reason why they are using Amazon S3 and that is scalability).

So, how come? (And what's with the whale anyway? =)