If you’re an avid Twitter user (wait, you’re not on Twitter yet!?), then you’ve certainly seen the dreaded “Twitter over capacity” whale a few times in the last week or so. Confronted with the fail whale many times this week ourselves we too have grumbled to the Twitter gods: WTF is going on? The Twitter gods PR guy has finally answered.

Twitter’s “communications guy,” Sean Garrett, admitted yesterday that June has been Twitter’s worst month (worst since way back in October, anyhow) as the micro-blogging platform undergoes structural changes to address record tweeting and account creations. Garrett urges us to all be patient:

We’re working through tweaks to our system in order to provide greater stability at a time when we’re facing record traffic. We have long-term solutions that we are working towards, but in the meantime, we are making real-time adjustments so that we can grow our capacity and avoid outages during the World Cup.

Twitter has promised that it wouldn’t shut down during precious World Cup game tweeting sessions and would give advanced warning in any case. Twitter is performing the necessary fixes just in time as World Cup tweeting numbers are sure to be on the rise. Regardless, until it is fully updated in two weeks’ time, Twitter is still going to have to deal with the wrath of its followers and unpleasant strings like this: