SHOCKING: Boston man's Twitter account suspended, uses TELEPHONE to ask friend out for ice cream

Published Jul 06 2009, 09:09 AM by Carly Carioli

The good news: BOSTON TWEET is back online. The Onion-style shocker: a Twitterer actually used a telephone to contact a friend . . . to wait out the Twitter outage at JP Licks.

It appears the outage that briefly took Boston Tweet down was part of a huuuuuuuge Twitter screwup that bolloxed thousands of accounts around the world. (Headed now to file FOIA to see if State Dept involved. You can do that by Twitter, right? No? Nevermind.) Even though BostonTweet honcho Tom O'Keefe figured out what happened early on, "it did however scare the bejesus out of me." The account was still down as of 1 am last night, but is up bright and early. You can also read Tom's comment on the earlier post.

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Erin (@Erin_O) said:

Telephones are not an obsolete technology. Just because no one bothers to use them anymore. I was both honored and excited to have my phone ring and have someone other than my mother on the other end. It was almost like getting one of those hallmark cards with music.

July 6, 2009 11:57 AM

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