![Tumblr has brief outage after Dashboard experiences ‘major performance issues’ [Updated]](https://media.thenextweb.com/2012/10/tumblr-founder.avif)
TO GO WITH AFP STORY Tumblr-founder David Karp poses for a photo in the headquarters of the microblogging platform and social networking website on February 2, 2012 in New York. The website, which allows users to post text, images, videos, links, quotes and audio to their tumblelog, a short-form blog, was founded by Karp in […]
Credit: DON EMMERT
Tumblr has confirmed an outage due to problems with its Dashboard. The site went down late Thursday (US time), with some pages displaying an error that its servers were over capacity, while others simply said that the service was unavailable.
Update: The site is back online. The company’s tweet announcing the outage appears to have been deleted.
Thursday seems to have been a wonky day for the Internet, as YouTube also had some trouble and Github went down due to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.
Image credit: DON EMMERT / AFP / Getty Images
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