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Re: Twitter is Down; I Blame the Democrats

QuitYourBitchin — Thu, 15 May 2008 10:28:29 -0000

The only thing more exhausting than the past 1 1/2 years of Presidential campaigning is Mashable's constant petty Democrat bitch slaps ("I'm talking about you, Mr. Gore," and "I blame the Democrats" today alone.)

Your tech coverage is great, but your whiney political inserts are tiring.

Re: Twitter is Down; I Blame the Democrats

Felix Leiter — Wed, 14 May 2008 23:27:46 -0000

Huh? John Edwards was doing the talk show roundup last week talking about Obama being the de facto nominee. He has been talking a lot lately, this isn't a new phenomenon that began tonight.

Re: Twitter is Down; I Blame the Democrats

barbbigred — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:29:39 -0000

All electronic/computer based errors are 100% "I blame it on Bin Laden" ... works every time ... try it the next time someone runs out of cash register tape or credit card scan doesn't work - Don't give the Democrats enough credit to actually know how to "crash" the system.

Re: Twitter is Down; I Blame the Democrats

Chachafance — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:00:25 -0000

Just go to Pownce, it's the same as Twitter but better.

Re: Twitter is Down; I Blame the Democrats

ijustine — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:59:46 -0000

Waaaa twitter. We missed you!

Re: Twitter is Down; I Blame the Democrats

sqeasel — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:43:08 -0000

I think that the ferrets they have running in hamster wheels connected to generators to power their facility decided to go on strike and attempt to change careers and become professional knee biters.

Re: Twitter is Down; I Blame the Democrats

the notorious vmg — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:24:20 -0000

Aaaah!!! It's "vacillates" for God sakes!

Re: Twitter is Down; I Blame the Democrats

Sean O — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:59:27 -0000

Ummm... vacillates?

Re: Twitter is Down; I Blame the Democrats

modemlooper — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:59:22 -0000

John Edwards waited till its no secret who will be nominated. Weak! Im supporting Bush that he will never run for prez again.

Re: Twitter is Down; I Blame the Democrats

christopher carfi — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:55:38 -0000

what the world needs now is a "Twitter is down, I blame..." page not unlike http://kottke.org/when-obam... page.

Re: Twitter is Down; I Blame the Democrats

Matt — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:52:18 -0000

I'll tell you why... it's because Twitter is not a big truck... Twitter is a series of tubes...

Re: Twitter is Down; I Blame the Democrats

Jim S — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:41:46 -0000

Hey, while Twitter is down, get on BeenUp2! www.beenup2.com. It's like Twitter but with photos! A perfect iPhone app.

Re: Twitter is Down; I Blame the Democrats

Art Lindsey III — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:38:57 -0000

I think the Democrats are the perfect group to blame. Look at the following parallel:

Twitter is universal (Free), and bunch of people use it. Because of this it's tough to scale and is collapsing under its own weight.

Just like Universal Health Care.

Class dismissed. :)

Re: Twitter is Down; I Blame the Democrats

Barry — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:30:00 -0000

I'd say it's probably Hillary's supporters in West Virginia trying to block out the Edwards endorsement, but we twitterers tend to be more of the arugula eating elite types.

Re: Twitter is Down; I Blame the Democrats

Amy — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:17:11 -0000

I imagined that it was mysterious men in black came in and pulled the plug Ghost Busters style and the sound from the explosion (sounded like a million robins screaming and then nothing) has caused a sonic boom to such an extreme that the servers crashed.

Re: Twitter is Down; I Blame the Democrats

Ontario Emperor — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:09:59 -0000

It's probably space aliens. There's probably a highly advanced race that has mastered the art of communicating in 140 byte messages, and Twitter threatens its dominance of the galaxy. Twitter's new hires are actually alien plants sent to sabotage the operation.

Looking over what I just wrote, I think it's the most reasonable explanation that I've ever heard.