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Re: Regarding the 500 errors on /statuses/update

twibble <thilo.horstm...@gmail.com>

Good luck!

as a side note it would be great if the API could return a "503
Service Unavailable" during maintenance (rather than a 200 as it does
now).

thank you,
http://twitter.com/twibble

On Jul 2, 6:40 pm, "Alex Payne" <a...@twitter.com> wrote:

> We have a database that we use to log receipts of all received
> messages.  That database is having some issues, and our when
> application sees that, it decides to hand your clients back a 500 even
> though we've received the update.  We're working to get that database
> stable so you once again see the expected behavior (a 200 response if
> everything went fine, a 401 response if you're not authorized, etc.).
> This is certainly annoying, but at the very least we're not losing
> your updates.  Thanks for your patience.

> --
> Alex Paynehttp://twitter.com/al3x