In the early hours of Thursday according to US Eastern Time our beloved Twitter was down. In a way the world stood still. I was also surprised by the outage in spite of frequent Twitter downtimes in recent months. Maybe it was surprising due to the fact that there was no “fail whale” sorry page but just a browser error that showed up on Twitter.com
I felt like an amputee.
I got so used to the Twitter background chatter I could access any time that I felt lost in a way. That was another surprise as I use several other social sites throughout the day, most notably
- StumbleUpon
- Delicious
- YCombinator Hacker News
- Browzmi
