Blame Capello, Ronaldo or the ball, we guess.
Twitter has been up and down like a yo-yo this month, as it struggles to cope with the immense number of tweets being sparked by the World Cup.
As an interim measure, the company has cut its default API rate limits from 350 to 175.
That means third-party services using Twitter's API - which includes mobile apps - can only poll the service for new tweets 175 times an hour, rather than 350 times.
"The API represents approximately 75% of the traffic that comes to twitter.com," explains Twitter's FAQ on the cut.
"Keeping the rates under control. This means our best chance of bringing the services back is to lower the read-load on the API."
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For Twitter app developers, this presents a communication issue for their users, who may wonder why their app isn't updating with new tweets as often as they'd like.
