[Outages-discussion] [outages] Twitter intermittently broken

Patrick W. Gilmore patrick at ianai.net
Mon Mar 3 01:13:50 EST 2014


On Mar 03, 2014, at 00:23 , Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 5:00 AM, Grant Ridder <shortdudey123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Article on yahoo says it was caused by one picture
>> http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-news/oscars-2014--ellen-s--selfie-wins-internet--breaks-twitter-034518537.html?vp=1

> Ellen made a comment later in the broadcast about
> breaking twitter.  She seemed to be very proud of it.

I would have been. Wouldn't you?

She didn't "attack" the service, she -used- it. Did exactly what they -want- her to do, post something other people will re-tweet.

I bet even Twitter is happy about it, nice publicity. Everyone wins.

-- 
TTFN,
patrick

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