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The US State Department Takes Twitter Seriously - So Should You | Twittown Blog - The Apps and Widgets Community and Forums

Submitted by Panda88

Jun 19, 2009

Summary

Anyone who uses Twitter a lot knows that downtime happens - in fact, it's predictable. Twitter takes the site down frequently to perform scheduled maintenance, which can take anywhere from one to three or four hours. Twitter always schedules these updates to occur when their largest user base, the United States, is mostly asleep.

That all changed this week when Twitter moved a scheduled outage to the middle of the afternoon in the United States, so that Iranian protesters could continue to use the microblogging platform as an information tool in what has become the world's most discussed topic - last week's disputed Iranian elections, and the protests and violence that have ensued since then. Read the full article

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