Twitter, the social phenomenon of 2009, Feb-June, was temporarily knocked offline this week when an office administrator failed to pay their hosting bill because she was too busy Twittering.
Around the world fans of the micro messaging service were shocked to find their much loved website offline.
“I was about to do my daily lunchtime update when I discovered it wouldn’t load, even though I hit the Reload button in my browser, like, 500 times!” said frequent Twittererer, Stefan Le’Loukoulas, more popularly known as @ieatmuchkebab.
@ieatmuchkebab is one of the Twitoverse’s most popular posters, with over 1,980,000 followers reading his daily post-lunch Twits on his latest kebab experience. He even counts Ashton Kutcher as a follower.
“@ieatmuchkebab is an uber-twitter! Demi and I read him all the time. We love his insights into the seedier side of kebab eating.” said Kutcher.
Avid follower @fattrekguyinred, who posts short star trek fan fiction via the service, said “His posts say so much about the world, in so few characters. It might appear he’s posting about kebabs, but it’s really more about life in the broader sense, you know?”
Twitter Media Liason, Sandford P. Uniball told reporters gathered outside the Twitter HQ “Although the Twitter service was offline for several hours on Thursday, we did not receive a single message of complaint via our Twitter complaint channel during that period. We attribute this to the high degree of loyalty and affection our user-base has for the company and our unique service and we thank them all for having such boring, pointless, self-centred lives.”
@ieatmuchkebab resumed his posting immediately after the service was back online, informing his followers “tried a new place today. had a lamb doner, extra garlic sauce, double onion, was good. bought 3 more for the walk back to office.”
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