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Barbara Walters May Have Killed Twitter After Talking About It on TV

by Terrence O'Brien on March 2, 2009 at 04:28 PM



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!

Do you use Twitter?
Yes1724 (6.0%)
No9922 (34.4%)
I don't even know what Twitter is.17198 (59.6%)


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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