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OMG Twitter is down arrrgh helllp whimper sob

By Dave Winer on Thursday, August 05, 2010 at 7:11 PM.

A picture named omgtwitterisdownagainarrrgh.gifWe are so pathetic, addicted to Twitter, yet helpless to do anything about it when it goes down. This is what the Internet comes to.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Make a movie about it. "Great acting, unbelievable plot," writes AO Scott in the NY Times. The human race goes down in flames. When aliens discover the ruins of our civilization it turns out Twitter went down and never came back. All the iconography in our churches replaced with images of whales and cute blue birds. Permanent link to this item in the archive.
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A picture named dw.jpgDave Winer, 55, is a visiting scholar at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in New York City.

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