Emily Steel and Elizabeth Holmes, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal

Twittering in the Dark: Lance Armstrong, Andy Dick Weigh In

August 7, 2009 at 7:05 am PT

Twitter went silent for a few hours on Thursday, and popular Tweeters had plenty to say about it.

Comedian Andy Dick complained that the outage kept him from blocking a user who had taken a swipe at his celebrity status. Mr. Dick says he usually blocks someone about once a week for writing rude comments, calling himself “an easy target” and the offenders “haters.”

When Twitter wouldn’t let him obstruct a particular insulter Thursday, Mr. Dick persisted. “I tried it about 10 times in a row,” he said, to no avail.

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