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Oh, dear.  It's done it now.  Twitter was already known for experiencing an embarrassing amount of downtime, but the microblogging service crashed during the Macworld keynote, and users are not happy.

A key point in all this (and we'll get to "all this" in another moment) is that Twitter's leaders presumably knew Macworld was coming; while wildfires, oil spills, and other disasters can't be anticipated, Steve Jobs's keynote address occurs quite regularly.  Twitter could have - and probably should have - prepared for extra traffic.

Nicholas Carlson wrote, "[M]y boss is at Macworld right now and he's expecting Twitter's Jack Dorsey to take the stage in a matter of minutes.  Of course, you should be hearing about this from him in our liveblog of the event.  But we used a Twitter embed. And it's broken.  And, depending on when you're visiting the 'Wag,' it's either not working or loading really slow.  Break a leg, Jack!"

Duncan Riley, Adam Ostrow, Allen Stern, Rick Mahn, Matt Herzberger, and Jackie Danicki took note of the outage, as well.  This is hardly the kind of publicity that a young and not entirely profitable company would want.

Oh, well.  Guess we'll see if the event has any effect on Twitter's long-term popularity.