Is Twitter Down?

Lately I was getting a bit more into twitter. For obvious reasons I found this service that somehow made me lough when I found it. I just wish it would say “Yes” less often.

15. May 2008 | twitter

tcurdt

Theo Schlossnagle, a fellow Apache guy. When it shows "yes" the link takes you to his book about scalable internet architectures ;)
Harold

Theo?
tcurdt

@Harold: Thats was meant seriously!

Yeah, it *is* funny :) ...especially the fact it links to Theo's book
Vas the Man

You know why it was down? A guy I work with brought it down. He accidentally put a mail server into an infinite loop by sending a message with a single backtick (`) in the subject line. Amused by this, he posted something to Twitter to the effect of "Fear the power of a single ` !" and next thing you know, the Twitter web site was down. They've fixed the problem now, though.
Harold

It is funny! I thought so, anyway...
tcurdt

Yeah ...really funny. Theo, nice one :)
Harold

Ha, I just found that too. I'll bet you searched for a term/phrase such as 'twitter down', right? That's how I discovered it. Did you click the link? Hilarious.

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Is Twitter Down?