First GChat, Now Twitter Fails
Many users now have their Gchat back after Thursday morning's service failure, but are now facing a new blackout around lunchtime: Twitter won't load!
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One day after a huge blackout cut off power to nearly a third of India, a second major outage has spread even further, leaving an estimated 600 million people without electricity.
Many users now have their Gchat back after Thursday morning's service failure, but are now facing a new blackout around lunchtime: Twitter won't load!
Wikipedia found success with its 24-hour blackout in January to protest U.S. anti-piracy legislation, so it's trying the same technique in Russia where a bill promoted as a curb on child pornography threatens to create an Internet blacklist.
Utility says a worker messed up, but can't explain why so many were affected
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