Twitter Took A Week's Vacation

Among social media and network types of websites, Twitter spent over 37 hours away from the Internet and the service's users.

As fans of Twitter know, the site can be subject to maddening downtime. When big news happens and lots of people start tweeting, Twitter experiences spikes.

Those tend to be followed by outages, ones that likely led to a shakeup at the service over the past month. Two of Twitter's top tech types left the company, a development that's difficult to cast as coincidence in the wake of outages in the early part of 2008.

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