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I just happened to be looking at my Twitter feed the very moment they posted, and clicked the link immediately. No go.

Would this effect happen so quick? I guess they do have a lot of followers, but I'd hope that even if all of them did what I did they could survive that amount of hits?




The other thing to keep in mind is that cia.gov is probably not made to handle lots of traffic, since I cant imagine them having a massive day-to-day userbase.. hence I assume it would be rather easy to get them choked up with traffic


perhaps they were DDOSing it and brought it to a crawl, then all the other visitors streaming in would certainly give it the final blow




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