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Im In Ur Serverz: Downtime Art

Posted By Rich Miller On February 1, 2008 @ 10:29 am In Downtime | Comments Disabled

Twitter has taken a lot of grief for its recent downtime. Perhaps as a coping skill, they’ve made effective use of humor in their display screens for maintenance outages and 404s. Andrew Baron has been collecting them and has posted a gallery of Twitter downtime art [1] at Dembot. It’s worth a visit. Thanks to Fred Wilson [2] for the link.

About Rich Miller [3]

Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.

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[1] gallery of Twitter downtime art: http://dembot.com/post/25197975

[2] Fred Wilson: http://fredwilson.vc/post/25232144

[3] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/

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