While NBC is offering live streaming of Olympic events, its Internet presence hasn't been working smoothly for some of its Twitter critics. "It's just taken me an hour to log into NBC streaming Olympics coverage," reported .

Its app isn't faring much better for some. "NBC live app total fail," wrote . "Ads load but not Olympics."

Twitter had its own problems leading up to the Olympic Games. The day before the opening ceremony, the for about an hour and half.

According to a number of media watchers and IT professionals, the Olympics will have a on worldwide communications traffic so more disruptions may be in the cards for Twitter users. NBC, though, probably won't be complaining when such outages occur.