I've got three functional ways of accessing Twitter, none of which work right now. And a brief scan through Technorati suggests the problem is universal. It's amazing how quickly you integrate something like this into your life, and jarring to discover -- through losing it -- that it's become part of your extended identity. Because dammit, I want my Twitter back.
First thought: Are the apparent problems at Twitter related to yesterday's secondary news, which was that the coverage of the Bhutto assassination was driven to some extent by Tweets from Pakistan?
Could this afternoon's issues at Twitter be the result of thousands of newspeople around the globe saying, "Wow, I gotta get this Twitter thing"?
Something definitely seems to be up. I'm not receiving updates, and the Twitter site itself is loading sporadically this afternoon.
Posted by: Rob Robinson | Friday, December 28, 2007 at 17:07