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20071119 Monday November 19, 2007
The Internet's Single Point of Failure Computers

tinyurl.com is down today and it's wreaking havoc on services like Twitter and other's who leverage it.

Here's good article from Steve Rubel that I found while searching for the cause the outage.  Not surprisingly, he also used the term "single point of failure" to describe the situation.
 


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