This week marks the one year anniversary of Twitter's meteoric rise to fame which began at last year's SXSW conference. Today Twitter is one of the best ways to find about about breaking news stories and events.
Here's how it works: Just visit your Twitter page, if it takes ages to load or the server has crashed, you know something is happening, probably a Stevenote or maybe a wildfire, better check your RSS feeds and find out what's going on.
Okay, maybe it isn't that bad, but it's bad enough that Twitter voluntarily pulled itself offline over the weekend and made some changes designed to help the service survive SXSW later this week.
In an e-mail Twitter developer Alex Payne tells users that Twitter intends to “decrease the number of allowed authenticated API requests per hour from 70 to 50 from Thursday, March 6th through Wednesday, March 12th.”
Hopefully that, combined with the server upgrades will help the service limp through SXSW. If not there's always the chance that this year's SXSW will see the changing of the guard, Twitter competitor Pownce has a fresh API update, but is still waiting for the developers and users to pour in.
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