Gooooooooooooooooooal!

[cyrano]

I hear rumors that the World Cup broke Twitter.
Tweeters, has this happened before? Presidential elections, NBA games, possibly natural disasters that did not involve Vuvuzelas?

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[tersa.livejournal.com]

The NHL bloggers have joked that Trade Deadline day broke Twitter back in March. :)

[lynthia.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure Michael Jackson's death broke Twitter. I don't use it, so I have no clue, but that's what I heard.

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

SXSW and MacWorld both break Twitter.

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

From all of the above, sounds like Twitter is pretty fragile. (Not being an actual Twit, I wouldn't know.)

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

My guess is 'fragile but readily repaired'.

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

I have absolutely no use for Twitter, (though it certainly seemed to come in handy last year in Iran.)

[ipsafictura.livejournal.com]

It gets broken frequently, major sporting events, celebrity deaths, etc. It's actually pretty easy to knock out the system temporarily.