Twitter Grinds to a Halt

Courtesy Mashable!  Wed, 08/12/2009 - 18:17

Coincidence?

An hour or so after we posted news about a study that indicated 40 percent of all tweets were pointless babble , new tweets stopped showing up in our timelines and in Twitter search.

Although we’re still able to update Twitter, new tweets from those we follow – both on the Web interface and in third-party apps like TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop – have grinded to a halt.

As of 8:15PM ET, the issue...


 

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