Twitter share count, once broken, now fixed

The Twitter share count feature that went offline and remained for a few weeks has been fixed. The counter that's used by hundreds of thousands of websites on the internet was disabled by Twitter.

Paterson Times' sharing center showing two shares on Twitter.

We've since switched to a different mechanism to obtain the share count from the microblogging website.

Thank you for bearing with us as we worked to remove this minor issue that resulted from Twitter's actions.

Eight hours of downtime

We recently experienced an unexpectedly prolonged outage at our Chicago data center. The downtime lasted for 7 hours, 47 minutes and 2 seconds.

Paterson Times went offline at 4:30 p.m. on January 2, 2016. It was back online at 12:17 a.m. on January 3, 2016.

The outage resulted from a “physical fiber connection issue” between the internet connection provider and the facility in which the server racks are hosted.

The issue has been resolved. However, as of now, we are working to find alternative solutions to ensure such prolonged downtimes are prevented in the future.

We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused.

Paterson Times Team