[LINK] More KevinPM - crashed site

[Jon Seymour]

Did it really crash, or did they have to reset it to delete all the
twitters about Net Censorship?

jon.

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Jan Whitaker <jwhit at janwhitaker.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/web/too-many-twitters-drown-out-rudd-website/2008/11/13/1226318798926.html
> So many people were signing up to follow Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's
> short text message updates on Twitter last night that his new page on
> the social networking site crashed.
>
> A spokeswoman for Mr Rudd said the Prime Minister had 670 Twitter
> followers late last night, but he lost most of them when the
> <http://twitter.com/kevinruddpm>page crashed due to high demand.
>
> [there is mention of a new YouTube link and Malcolm Turnbull's use of
> the net as well]
>
> Jan
>
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