John Paczkowski

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Twitter Is Down. In Other News, Mideast Peace Still Elusive.

Oh look: Twitter is down again. How unusual.

The service has been inaccessible for the better part of the last hour. And according to the Twitter Status blog, the company has “received reports of elevated error rates for users; we’re currently investigating.”

UPDATE: Ah. Evidently this is “unplanned downtime.”

Well, that explains it.

UPDATE: Did I say “unplanned downtime”? I meant, “period of high unavailability.”

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Twitter’s Tanking

December 30, 2013 at 6:49 am PT

2013 Was a Good Year for Chromebooks

December 29, 2013 at 2:12 pm PT

BlackBerry Pulls Latest Twitter for BB10 Update

December 29, 2013 at 5:58 am PT

Apple CEO Tim Cook Made $4.25 Million This Year

December 28, 2013 at 12:05 pm PT

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The problem with the Billionaire Savior phase of the newspaper collapse has always been that billionaires don’t tend to like the kind of authority-questioning journalism that upsets the status quo.

— Ryan Chittum, writing in the Columbia Journalism Review about the promise of Pierre Omidyar’s new media venture with Glenn Greenwald