Twitter home not updating, falling hours behind

While users can still send tweets, receive @ replies, relay direct messages, and use Twitter’s search function, their home page after logging in is not displaying new tweets. Instead, it now lags two hours behind (and counting).

Twitter’s official status blog wrote moments ago that it is “investigating a problem causing many users’ timelines to be delayed.” But it has yet to post any further updates to this point.

Tweets are flying in about the problem:

1. 
   RobertVinet Why is twitter only showing tweets older than 2 hrs on my home page while searches reveal newer posts. Same on Web & TweetDeck. 08 Oct 2009 from web
2. 
   M2M My twitter home is not refreshing anymore? It says no one posted in 2 hours. First that’s impossible and second, I know it’s not true! 08 Oct 2009 from Power Twitter
3. 
   JulzOnTheGO ummm helloo? twitter are you there ?….anyone home ? 08 Oct 2009 from web
4. 
   kumarankush Something is really fishy with my twitter home page.. anyone facing same issues? 08 Oct 2009 from mobile web
5. 
   martinpinnau Grrr. Twitter Home page is broken. No updates have shown up in 2hrs even though people are tweeting. 08 Oct 2009 from web
6. 
   MeeksAmilli whats poppin’ with twitter? cant see any updates on my home page… 08 Oct 2009 from web
7. 
   RadoxTheGreen @twitter No updates on home page for 2 hours! 08 Oct 2009 from web
8. 
   Stas_iu OK. What’s going on? Neither my Twitter home page nor Tweetdeck are updating, but I can view my followers individually and see their tweets. 08 Oct 2009 from TweetDeck

For more, RedEye also looks into today’s Twitter outage.