But Mr. Peabody, that article is still on the web...
https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/06/16/twit...
> The 2010 World Cup has lived up to its billing as a watershed event for the Internet, with web traffic from early game easily exceeding previous records from Election Night 2008. The leading casualty has been Twitter, where Tweetstorms during World Cup games have exposed deeper scalability challenges.
> Traffic spikes over the past week have overwhelmed Twitter's internal network capacity, and the performance problems are likely to continue until a long-term fix is found, the company said last night, meaning outages and maintenance downtime are likely to continue through the remainder of the World Cup.
And when is the next World Cup you ask? It starts November 20th with Qatar vs Ecuador.
And November 20th? That's Sunday. Offices will be closed.
Prediction? The lettuce wins again.