Twitter scare

Reposted

Twitter sent a major scare through its user community over the last couple of days. A key to Twitter's success is the abiltiy to "follow" another user and to be "followed" by others. For pieces of two days, they lost all such connections. Those were restored by Thursday late afternoon.

Twitter enables its users to communicate via a mobile phone text. The user can determine which which users that it follows will be enabled for its tweets to be texted.

Addendum: See http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/new_twitter_anti-spam_bot_causes_chaos.php for more information on this outage.