June 15 at 5:02PM
Can the Revolution Just Take a 90 Minute Break for Twitter, Please?
In case you haven't noticed, Twitter — pretty much the one means of communication for Iranian revolutionaries — is suddenly the most important website on the Internet.
What happens in the next several days — in the next several hours — could change the face of global politics forever.
And how is Twitter celebrating its moment of absolute relevance?
We will have 90 mins of maintenance starting at 9:45p Pacific today, June 15.
Eh, what's it really matter? It's not like people are dying over there.
Well, it's not like Americans are dying over there.
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The revolution will not be tweeterized.
BTW, the http://www.dipstickdaily.com is up and running again.
http://blog.twitter.com/2009/06/down-time-rescheduled.html
Really now, that message is automated and will come up every planned maintenance day. You gotta give the heads time to work out how to adjust pre-planned maintenance since it involves moving employee hours around and reconsidering how it effects peak usage times in the US (which it appears most twitterers are accepting taking that hit, kudos to them). These decisions can't be made split second, and I think the response time was good considering the time frame of all this going on.