Twitter was down for about two hours Thursday, prompting speculation that the site was overloaded from Olympic-related traffic. Twitter said that the outage wasn't related to an uptick in usage, but that didn't stop some media outlets from wondering aloud about a "Twitter overload." A huge spike in Twitter traffic is expected during the London Olympics.



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