Is Twitter Down?

Is Twitter Down?, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.

Last night, I was hoping to twitter with others watching the Democratic Presidential Debates, held in Las Vegas. No dice. Twitter was down.

A Republican plot? Or do the Twitter folks have secret Republican leanings?

At any rate, I weathered the event, but it had a curiously one-sided feel, as I sat in a darkened room alone, watching TV (a rare occurence), without being able to talk to others. I don’t go for ‘rivalrous’ media anymore: I want to talk in the movies, twitter during the debates, backchannel the conferences, IM during meetings. I am a part of the hive mind, and when I am disconnected, I get disoriented: like a fish without a school, or a bird without a flock.

I really wanted to post some questions to my twitthren, but I was reduced to talking out loud, like a hermit in a cave.