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by wyclif 3807 days ago
"The company initially confirmed the outage by, somehow, tweeting, from its @support account. We were unable to see the tweet, because Twitter was down."
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Tongue-in-cheek statements like this are proof that the guardian is still a british news org
Even better was that being followed with "Twitter emailed the text of the tweet to the Guardian".