Alert! Alert! Twitter has reached over capacity!

twitter-over-capacity1This morning I needed to quickly check who was tweeting what on Twitter (my loyal subjects).

I first tried to use Twitter on Internet Explorer only the page was taking a very long time to load. I put it down to IE and cursed its unreliability.

But when I tried to logon using Firefox I was met with a message that said Twitter was ‘Over Capacity’.

I couldn’t believe my eyes.

Just last week it launched an advertising platform that aims to finally bring it into profitability after bragging about its 105,779,710 registered users worldwide.

The site attracts 300,000 new users a day, which works out to be around 10 million new users a month. If this growth trajectory continues, Twitter could double in size this year – or perhaps it could just break? A minor glitch?