Verio taking twitter down during Iran Election Riots?

2009-06-15 Thread Erik Fichtner

http://status.twitter.com/post/124145031/maintenance-window-tonight-9-45p-pacific

Am I reading that right?   Is someone at Verio seriously going to take twitter 
out
for 90 minutes at 9am in Tehran?





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Re: Make that NTT America (was Re: Verio taking twitter down during Iran Election Riots?

2009-06-15 Thread Erik Fichtner
Brandon Galbraith wrote:

 http://status.twitter.com/post/124145031/maintenance-window-tonight-9-45p-pacific

 You sure it's their network, and not Twitter's core/edge?

They're blaming it on their upstream.




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Re: Verio taking twitter down during Iran Election Riots?

2009-06-15 Thread Erik Fichtner
Stephen Repetski wrote:
 Yep, that's what it says. Things like critical network upgrades sometimes
 don't wait for good timing - they make their own special event.

And yet, all upgrades can be postponed with the right... motivation.

http://blog.twitter.com/2009/06/down-time-rescheduled.html

Nice save, NTT.




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