Flickr is Do..oh Nevermind, it’s Back up Again

10/20/09 - Posted by Abdullah Saeed under Because We Feel Like it, Industry

There is an air of bummed-outted-ness clouding the Twairwaves today, as Flickr, a fan favorite is struggling with technical difficulties and is temporarily unavailable. Whoop…there it is working again. I’m totally serious, I started writing about how it was down at 2:13 and at 2:18, bam. Fixed. Within that brief five minte period, Tweets have gone from the maudlin
to exuberant exclamations of

Wow. I don’t want to exaggerate, but I am suddenly feeling some kind of power in my finger tips. I start writing about a problem and suddenly, mid article, mid sentence, problem solved. Next time something on the Realtime web acts up, don’t fret social networking mini-gurus, Abdullah Saeed is on it. In fact, why does it have to stop at internet problems? I’m gonna bang out a few solutions right here, right now. It is still unclear who won the Afghanistan election. There are over a billion starving people in the world. This morning, Abdullah woke up yet again without an Xbox 360…Rats. Must’ve just been a coincidence.

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