I have no absolutely evidence along those lines, but frankly I wouldn’t put it past the Iranian regime at all to pay somebody to cyber-bomb Twitter. It’s certainly been comprehensive enough to fit the enhanced requirements of a nation-state.
…HAH! It literally went up just as I wrote that! Clearly, someone was monitoring my post.
Twitter is down because it’s overdue for an hour’s worth of scheduled maintenance. They picked this time because it’s late night for Iran. It’ll be back up soon.
Crossposted to RedState.
In the grand scheme of things, I suppose that this isn’t much of a much. Petty, unthinking, heedless, and completely indifferent to the historical record:
Barack Obama‘s Webheads are getting ready to launch a new Twitter feed for President Change. But the White House already had a Twitter account. It has disappeared down the memory hole.
Given the widespread belief that Obama invented the Internet, many will scoff at the idea that the Bush White House had a Twitter account. But it did — and the administration handed over twitter.com/thewhitehouse at noon on Inauguration Day, just like it did with the whitehouse.gov website. Google still has the old account, with Obama’s tweets, in its cache [ed. – In fact, as Mere Rhetoric notes, the actual material’s gone].
…but not the worst thing that this administration has managed to do so far. Still, a little annoying: I got used to having the grown-ups be in charge of running the country.
Crossposted to RedState.
Please be engaging in your mandatory voluntary following of my heroic worker’s Tweets.
