Timeline of a Twitter outage

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Timeline of a Twitter outage

Twitter is DOWNTWITTER IS DOWN NOW IT'S NOT OH MY GOD. A nightmare in screenshots!

twitter is angry!
1 minute. Withdrawal! Confusion! Meta!

tumblr is angry!
3 minutes. Brian Conley, live from Tumblr! Fear his angry "back side"!

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7 minutes. Twitter's gothically geeky operations engineer John Adams implores you, put your pitchforks down.

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