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Tongue-in-cheek statements like this are proof that the guardian is still a british news org

Even better was that being followed with "Twitter emailed the text of the tweet to the Guardian".

Ah yes "the fail whale" was a common and much loved feature of day to day twife :-)

I mean, one part of me has worked on the backend of uber-high-bandwidth computing services and understands that there is no analogue to performance at that scale, and the other part is like "IT PUTS WORDS THAT PEOPLE POSTED ON A BUNCH OF PAGES, YOU CAN IMPLEMENT THE CORE FUNCTIONALITY IN AN AFTERNOON."

So I guess I kinda get it.

Don't you say?

Twitter are quite capable of falling over by themselves.