the NeoCommunicator» twitter http://theneocommunicator.com Technology for Strategic Communications Professionals in Simple Terms Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:35:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Twitter is down… Has the world stopped spinning? http://theneocommunicator.com/2009/08/06/twitter-down/ http://theneocommunicator.com/2009/08/06/twitter-down/#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:40:12 +0000 Jeff http://theneocommunicator.com/?p=302 It’s 10am EST and Twitter has been down since about 9:15 or so. What is one to do? Surely Facebook will be the natural alternative, but who wants to limit their pondering to just one social networking outlet?

By coincidence, I was just reading a post on Read Write Web on the potential dangers od cloud computing. How many businesses suffer when the king of 140 characters goes down? Would anyone care if MySpace went down?

These are the questions of our times. A highly-aware society with our fingers on the pulse of the news. We can’t wait for any offical confirmation. If it comes up as a trending topic on Twitter, it must be true! Now, we have to wallow in the alternative universe of actual news sites… What are we? Barbarians?

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