Arik Hesseldahl

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Twitter Suffers Brief Outage

Twitter was hit with a short outage this afternoon. In a status update, the company confirmed that at least some users were experiencing access issues. Once known for all too regular outages as its popularity grew, Twitter has in recent years become a more solid service. It did suffer a pair of outages during one week in January.

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Just as the atom bomb was the weapon that was supposed to render war obsolete, the Internet seems like capitalism’s ultimate feat of self-destructive genius, an economic doomsday device rendering it impossible for anyone to ever make a profit off anything again. It’s especially hopeless for those whose work is easily digitized and accessed free of charge.

— Author Tim Kreider on not getting paid for one’s work