This slipped by me: U.S. State Department speaks to Twitter over Iran
Apparently the US government has decided that Twitter is one of the few ways the Iranians are getting their message out since the clamp down on foreign journalists and so asked them to keep the service up instead of taking a scheduled outage during the Iranian daytime.
It brings an interesting question to light about "free" services and the SLA they offer, here is an example of a US based company with a global user base, and hence global responsibility, that is pandering to its US based customers to impact them the least, okay maybe I am being a little harsh, I would however like to see why down time was needed and why there was not an alternative approach to mitigate the down time and also; was the timing at the point in the week with the absolute lowest global usage?
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