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Barbara Walters, we're mad at you! You've killed our favorite micro-blogging/social networking service. Either that, or it was completely coincidental that your discussion of Twitter on 'The View' this morning immediately preceded a major outage of the service. But we're not buying it, Walters!
| Yes | |
|---|---|
| No | |
| I don't even know what Twitter is. |
According to Tweetscan, a site that tracks and indexes activity on Twitter, some of the last messages sent before the whole site was brought to its knees were about Walters mentioning the service on 'The View.'
Down time is nothing new for Twitter. In fact, the so-called Fail Whale graphic the site displays when it becomes overloaded has become synonymous with the service. But this time there was no Fail Whale, no error message, no nothing. The site simply died for a period of time.
According to the Twitter Status blog, a power failure at a data center took down several of their servers this morning, causing the outage. We just think they're covering up for Walters and her diabolical plan to deny us access to reading about our friends' lunch habits. [From: Gawker]
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsUnegawoMar 3rd 2009 11:43AM
Which profit are you and when did you decide to rewrite the BIBLE?
The verse you refer to does not exist in any version of the BIBLE. Including the Catholic version. Talk about anitchrist.
SundayMar 3rd 2009 6:38AM
So - Barbara Wawa became the nation's # 1 Twitt yesterday? Go Barbara!
waya52Apr 20th 2009 2:02PM
you go Barbra tweet and have fun your the best!!!!
LindaMar 3rd 2009 6:55AM
I would like to be part of twitter but the words are soooo small. Can't figure out how you make font larger. I don't have any trouble at other sites. Linda
tojoMar 3rd 2009 7:27AM
Americans waste more time being non productive than any other nation on earth. They don't need twitter to help them.
AudreyMar 3rd 2009 3:01PM
Amen!
bevMar 3rd 2009 7:43AM
I am not saying I have some of those same feelings about Obama but reading the Bible you should know that there will be NO PERSON that will know the exact ending day.
DeliciousMar 3rd 2009 7:45AM
People sure do get crazy at times. It must be the fact that people like Limbaugh are brainwashing people with low self-esteem with his hatred, bigotry, evilgelican hypocrisy, rascist, low-life, terroristic, un-American drivel. The Lord will save us but you better get your Bible stories straight and stop incoporating fiction into fact.
BobMar 3rd 2009 5:00PM
Have you ever listened to Rush...If you have you MUST be a moron..Rush is anything but a bigot, evangelist or racist. He puts forth intellectual ideas that left wing asswipes like you could not understand with 3x the very low IQ that you have. OBAMA (one big ass mistake America) and the left are trying to take power. Remember that Hitler, Stalin and Mao all wanted CHANGE and HOPE. Try listening and open your mind instead of your mouth.
AllieMar 3rd 2009 6:06PM
what does that have to do with that idiot Barbra Walters or Twitter?
TinaMar 3rd 2009 8:08AM
Okay, so I got my old Bible out, and in mine Revelations 3:35 doesn't even exist, as it only has 22 paragraphs.
maryMar 3rd 2009 4:17PM
They're called "verses", Darlin', not paragraphs. I think we all know how familiar you are with the Bible now.
THETINACHRISTINAMar 3rd 2009 8:06AM
Okay, so I got my old Bible out and Revelation 3:35 doesn't even exist as it only has 22 paragraphs. And it's RevElation not RevAlation.
geoMar 3rd 2009 8:49AM
Just another reason that the loud mouth left winging Ba Ba Wa Wa should keep her big mouth shut. Along with Joy and Whoopi.
ruthMar 4th 2009 3:51PM
I have never heard of this site
ElizabethMar 3rd 2009 7:47PM
This is actually a reply to "Mary"
The following comment is from a minister friend of mine:
"In my opinion, people who accuse others of not being Christian are not being Christian themselves because JC never turned away anyone."
That being said, are you a Bible scholar? Who are you to correct others? What does the Bible have to say about stumbiling blocks? I certainly would not follow you to your church.
EvelynMar 3rd 2009 10:02AM
So what do you believe? Do you believe in the Bible? Or do you believe in the pagan Mayan prophesy about the end of times on 12-21-2012?
d-manMar 3rd 2009 4:03PM
the bible has no specific date for the end of the world and it might as well be 12 21 12. nowhere do the myans say a metior wil hit us.
UncleDMar 3rd 2009 9:44AM
for Tina...couldn't find it in my copy of the Bible either. Maybe
it's because my Bible has a Book of Revelations. Guess
revalations must be quoting from his/her rewritten REvalations.
paulMar 3rd 2009 10:19PM
What is Twitter? Who cares about Twitter? Who can really believe that Barbara W. --one person-- coud cause a site to crash? There should be better topics out there to talk about and that is lots more important. I think that the person who put this item on AOL is trying to get people all worked up over nothing.