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Twitter Crashes, World Reels

Twitterverse taken down by 'double-whammy'

By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 27, 2012 12:00 AM CDT

(Newser) – The Twitterverse came to an unexpected halt for more than an hour yesterday, and tweeters around the globe nearly panicked. Twitter apologized for the worldwide outage, and blamed it on a technical glitch—not on overwhelming traffic triggered by the Olympics, as tweeters later speculated,...   Read full story »

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