Twitter lists got mixed reviews when they were unveiled. Did Twitter gave them the axe after such a short time? It doesn’t sound like it:

According to Twitter’s status page, the service has been experiencing a “very high rate of errors” (Mashable reports that “thousands of users” saw Fail Whales this afternoon), and that they are “working on the underlying problem:”

Update (1:30p): We are now recovering from this unexpected downtime. The Lists feature is temporarily unavailable as we diagnose the cause of the outage.”

Whew! A world without Twitter lists would have been frightening and unfathomable. We hope to see them make their return soon.