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i hate it here
Timeline of a Twitter outage

By Melissa Gira Grant, 5:00 PM on Thu Sep 25 2008, 799 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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

1 minute. Withdrawal! Confusion! Meta!

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

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

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