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Re: Is Twitter down for anyone else?

#71

The copyright on Twitter's maintenance page is still set to 2012. http://imgur.com/eb3AbX6

As far as I know, it doesn't have to (shouldn't?) be updated for the current year if it doesn't change. From http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap4.html#401 : If a notice appears on the copies, it shall consist of the following three elements: (1) the symbol © (the letter C in a circle), or the word “Copyright”, or the abbreviation “Copr.”; and (2) the year of first publication of the work If they haven't touched t…

Adding any copyright notice is optional since 1989 in the US, the year they joined the international agreement of the Berne Convention which was ratified in 1886 already.

The main purpose today is to demonstrate the owner claims the rights and is actually willing to defend them (in court), but it's not necessary to put it on any work.

Re: Is Twitter down for anyone else?

#73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With a PPC/CPM model Twitter is internalizing all the losses... Do they have different models?

I'm not necessarily referring to Sponsored Tweets; brands often coordinate word-of-mouth campaigns across all forms of media too, and Twitter's downtime would hurt that too.

Oh, no doubt. Some API functionality went haywire earlier today too... so anything built on top of Twitter can potentially have issues.

Re: Is Twitter down for anyone else?

#74
Back up, and they sent out a message on status.twitter.com:

Update [12:12pm PDT]: During a planned deploy in one of our core services, we experienced unexpected complications that made Twitter unavailable for many users starting at 11:01am. We rolled back the change as soon as we identified the issue and began a controlled recovery to ensure stability of other parts of the service. The site was fully recovered by 11:47am PDT. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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