[outages] So, when Twitter goes down

[Patrick W. Gilmore]

On Aug 24, 2009, at 6:10 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote:
> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>> where do you announce it?  :-)
>
> Oh pish posh, Twitter is the perfect web 2.0 application running on an
> infallible cloud computing service with unlimited scale. Or so I'm  
> told.

Don't forget that it is behind a 'tier one' network.  SIngle homed  
behind that network, but tier ones are physically incapable of going  
down.

Aren't they?

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TTFN,
patrick