Sunday, April 24, 2011

Act.ly Weathers Amazon Cloud Disaster On Earth Day

Everyone's favorite under-estimator of social media, Malcolm Gladwell, might get a chuckle out of Amazon's EC2 problems this week. First, they took out Foursquare, Reddit and Quora service, as TechCrunch's Mike Butcher reported yesterday. The disaster in the cloud also put a stop to those who would Tweet the revolution via Act.ly, a site that gets petitions going virally, online. The site and service was still out of order as of publication. Act.ly founder Jim Gilliam said:
"We usually get several thousand activism tweets a day. That hasn't happened for 36 hours, because of these issues with Amazon and...

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