Twitter Increases Capacity, Pats Itself On Back, Denies Being A Covert Government Agency

As just about everyone reading that likely saw, Twitter was down for a bit today. The maintenance was planned, and was actually postponed from yesterday to allow for the protests flowing by Twitter about the Iranian elections to continue. The downtime today actually took about half as expanded as expected, and “significantly increased” the service’s network capacity, co-founder Biz Stone writes today.

Stone goes on to give a verbal pat on the back all those involved. But the interesting part of that post comes towards the end, when Stone writes, “However, it’s crucial to note that the State area does not have access to our decision making process.”

He mentions that considering it’s being reported that the U.S. government asked Twitter to reschedule its downtime to allow the tweets about Iran to keep coming

through in the daytime hours there. You’ll notice he doesn’t precisely deny that the government asked for that, or that Twitter complied. And in fact, he urls to a story that confirms the State division did speak to Twitter. Instead, Stone seems to simply be stating that as a general rule, Twitter will not be influenced by government requests — something that is always a sensitive subject when it comes to startups that control some of your notes.

Stone concludes with, “Nevertheless, we can both agree that the open exchange of info is a positive force in the world.”

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