Twitter harpooned, Internet survives (just barely)

07.08.2009

"What is going on? Why isn't anybody responding? Why have I not gotten any tweets? It is just not normal." she recalls thinking. "It almost was like having no phone service."

Twitter is not Ma Bell... yet. But one day it could be -- so long as the Russians (or the Koreans, Chinese, and the hackers down the street) don't take it down first.

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