Playstation Network and consoles inoperable, rich people cry [Update]

**Update: According to Sony’s blog DON’T use your PS3 until Sony says otherwise. Quite a bug we have here, isn’t it?

**Update #2: It seems Sony has fixed the bug, it seems that users might have lost their trophies, but our friends over at Joystick have a Q&A on what to do.

Anyone here happen to be playing some marginally popular PS3 game yesterday just to have the Playstation Network up and die on you? After the rage subsided, did you happen to notice even offline play not working? If so, buy an xBox360 and mod your PS3 into a really nifty grill, so we can post about it

Anyways, it seems a crazy little error popped up for some that were trying to connect to the Playstation Network. Once disconnected, some tried playing offline and still had an error, the console was left not functioning. Playstation has released a statement on their twitter, stating…”We’re aware that many of you are having problems connecting to PSN, and yes, we’re looking into it. Stay tuned for updates,” which followed a couple hours later by…”PSN status update: We’re narrowing down the issue and continue to work to restore service to all. Updates as soon as we have them.”

From what I’ve been reading, it looks as if only the older models are experiencing this. I haven’t seen any of the ‘slim’ models showing up experiencing these problems. Sony tweetted the same thing, “PSN status update (part 2): Readers/followers are confirming that “slim” units (120/250 GB models) are connecting normally.”

So for those of you with the older models, hopefully Sony gets this problem rectified and you can get back on and do whatever it is you do on the Sony Network.

ars technica

Twitter down for you? You’re not alone.

Yes, the real time king is down yet again. Well, for some that is. According to Twitter’s Status Blog, some users located throughout the world are experiencing connection problems. It’s good to know I’m not going senile. Because of issues with the site, my full attention has been on fixing those problems, not scouring the internet for news goodies — hence the reason I didn’t know if Twitter was down or not. After finally taking a few minutes to check the web, it’s worth noting that the Twitter outage, or more appropriately connection issues aren’t a full blown outage. They aren’t limited to any one group or geographic location.

For now, the affected users don’t seem to share any commonalities. Unfortunately, I have been stricken in the group of down users as none of my Twitter apps on both my iPhone and Mac are doing anything except throwing up errors. Yet I’ll somehow manage to make it through the day. Who else is Tweet-less? Care to share what corner of the earth you dwell in as well as the total amount of time down so far? So far here in Northern Indiana I’m looking at almost 24 hours and counting. Fairing better or worse?

Mashable