iPhone 4 Pre Order Crashes Twitter, AT&T Websites

iPhone 4 Pre Order Crashes Twitter, AT&T Websites

With so much anticipation building up for today – June 15th, the day the iPhone 4 is officially available for pre order – everyone decided to stay until midnight to see if AT&T’s website would have the link available to pre order.

Let me first tell you that it’s now 12:44am EST and AT&T’s website does not have the pre order links for the iPhone 4 available yet. Their press release stated that the information to pre order the iPhone 4 will be here >> http://www.att.com/wireless/iphone/.

The only exciting things that happened at midnight was that Twitter crashed right at midnight, and then for some users, AT&T crashed around 12:30am.

Now I can’t say for sure if all users experienced Twitter’s famous Fail Whale – the whale that appears when Twitter crashes due to spikes in traffic. But for me, Twitter was definitely down as I got the Fail Whale.

Then, on the AT&T Facebook Fan Page, people were reporting outages of the AT&T website around 12:30am.

All of this is more than likely due to the huge global demand to pre order the new iPhone 4. But as of right now, 12:48am, both the Apple website and AT&T’s website do not have any links to pre order the iPhone 4.

So for me, I’m heading to bed and I’ll check up on everything in the morning!

Until then, I hope the entire Internet doesn’t crash for the rest of you…

View Comments

  • ok so Apple says it wont have a supply issue....but anyone trying to sell one is having a web server issue and is crashing their sites? pul-leeeeeeezzze!

  • well to be honest, I really think the iPhone will be available around 12:00 (PT) probably that's why we all have to wait an extra 2 hours, but i can't stay up until 2, so i'll wait until tomorrow morning or something, and i think the websites are crashing not because is over loaded, but probably because they are making maintenance or something, well, peace everyone.

  • Actually, now (11:50 PST) if you sign up for notification on the AT&T site, it takes you to a "Pre-Order Now" page -- but clicking that only takes you to the standard 3GS/3G page -- error = (

  • It's up to premiere members for At&T pre-order your now if you have a business account!

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