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Well, now it’s the first time that Twitter is completly unavailable. First I thought Cotweet is having problems again, no Twitter is gone…what happend? Mashable didn’t write anything yet (probably still sleeping), but I am sure there will come something up.

Now let’s all imagine Twitter will never be online again? What’s going to happen?

- Nothing would happen because the mainstream still doesn’t get why we are on Twitter or what it is
- 25% less posts on Mashable and Techcrunch
- Fastest new Social Media trends in Social Media history would come up
- Copycats would come up with the same idea
- My colleague “you would be unemployed”

What do you think would happen if Twitter disappears from one day to another?

Links:
http://istwitterdown.com/
Techcrunch
Twitter Is Down: 15 Alternative Things To Do
Mashable woke up (link)

Oh no, facebook is making problems now as well…

By the way, Mashable initiated the crash with their crappy Twitter guidlines presentation on slideshare!!! (link)

History:
Serious Twitter Outage Ongoing, Denial Of Service Attack (Updated)
Oooh Dramatic! Twitter Get’s DDOSed
Twitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)