Twitpic is adding a huge amount of capacity in order to keep up with the sites current demand according to the Twitpic blog.

This is the first big step in making Twitpic more reliable. This move will put Twitpic on its new hardware platform with over 3 times it’s current capacity…basically we bought more hamsters and put them in bigger wheels and gave them red bull (which is illegal in 48 states, but I know someone in government and they owed me a favor so its cool).

A new sexier & younger looking…uhhhh…*cough* a NEW layout for Twitpic will also be released tonight, below is a preview:

As of the time of this post the upgrade is mostly complete but certain site features such as commenting are currently disabled.