jackwilson (True Core Lover): comScore attributes this to Twitter's "early adopter period" when the social network first gained popularity in business settings and news outlets, which resulted in an older-skewing early adopter profile. However, comScore as of late, has noted that as Twitter has begun to "filter more into the mainstream, along with it came a culture of celebrity as Shaq, Britney Spears and Ashton Kutcher joined the ranks of the Twitterati."[ *06-03-10 - 01:05:47
jackwilson (True Core Lover): Outages : When Twitter experiences an outage, users see the "fail whale" error message image created by Yiying Lu,[46] an illustration of red birds using a net to hoist a whale from the ocean along with the text [47] "Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again."[47] *06-03-10 - 01:06:18
jackwilson (True Core Lover): Twitter experienced approximately 98 percent uptime in 2007, 0r about six full days of downtime.[48] Twitter's downtime was particularly noticeable during events popular with the technology industry such as the 2008 Macworld Conference & Expo keynote address.[49][50] During May 2008 Twitter's new engineering team made architectural changes to deal with the scale of growth. Stability issues resulted in down time 0r temporary feature removal. *06-03-10 - 01:07:15
jackwilson (True Core Lover): In August 2008, Twitter withdrew free SMS services to users in the United Kingdom[51] and for approximately five months instant messaging support via a XMPP bot was listed as being "temporarily unavailable".[52] On October 10, 2008, Twitter's status blog announced that instant messaging (IM) service was no longer a temporary outage and needed to be revamped. Twitter aims to return its IM service at some point but says this requires some major work.[53]. *06-03-10 - 01:08:03
jackwilson (True Core Lover): . 
.On June 12, 2009, in what was called a potential "Twitpocalypse", the unique identifier associated with each tweet exceeded the limit for 32-bit signed integers.[54] While Twitter itself was not affected, some third-party clients found that they could no longer access recent tweets. Patches were quickly released, though some iPhone applications had to wait for approval from the App Store.[55] On September 22, the identifier exceeded *06-03-10 - 01:08:24