http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/20763/state_of_the_union_overloads_twitter Comments for "State of the Union Overloads Twitter" en http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/20763/state_of_the_union_overloads_twitter <p>First Macworld, now the State of the Union. Several times during tonight's SOTU address <a href="http://twitter.com">Twitter's</a> servers were overloaded, preventing users of the popular micro-blogging service from sending or receiving tweets for several minutes at a time. </p> <p>A scan of <a href="http://twitter.com/public_timeline">Twitter's public timeline</a> during the speech showed a number of tweets about Bush's (hopefully) last address to Congress. But midway through, Twitter's website failed to process new messages and friend requests for several minutes at a time. </p> <p><a href="http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/20763/state_of_the_union_overloads_twitter">read more</a></p> http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/20763/state_of_the_union_overloads_twitter#comment State of the Union Twitter Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:27:12 -0500 Michael Whitney 20763 at http://www.techpresident.com