This morning, in a blog post, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone gave more of an explanation for the outage that the microblogging service endured due to a denial-of-service attack.
Fortunately, BoomTown can read between the lines in order to decipher the secret message herein!
Biz wrote: The Adventure Continues.
Translation: By “adventure,” I mean yet-another-friggin’-Twitter-birdie-crisis.
Actor Ashton Kutcher crossed the million-follower-on-Twitter line at 11:12 p.m. PDT, beating CNN.
Kutcher simply tweeted: “Victory is ours!!!!!!!!
The CNN cable news channel passed the million mark soon after, but was still second.
The race was getting close as midnight neared on the West Coast.
Not a real race, but a race of the Twits.
Kutcher vs. CNN was a race to get one million “followers,” those who sign up to receive a person’s or organization’s tweets on the hot microblogging service.
Now, I am worried about what Kutcher–whose Twitter handle is aplusk–will do with his one million minions. Order us all to play idiotic practical jokes on people? Rent Demi Moore movies, even the unwatchable ones (”G.I. Jane” anyone?), over and over? Get 1970s mullets?
Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »
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