Twitter off for a day and world didn't stop shock!

Came back to the Netz this evening after a day spent mainly in Real Life World (a strange place, full of physical objects that engage all 5 senses) to find the Twitterverse abuzz about the shock they had had , as Twitter was like Down, like All Day! OmiGod!.

Imagine the pent up witterings that has been held up, all those lunches left uneaten in forests of Twitter silence. Those pearls of wisdom from Ashton Kutcher and other net-slebs had been cast before those swines of routers.

Clearly I had avoided a fate worse than death by missing all the inaction....

Anyway, all is well with the world tonight, as the Denial of Service attacks are now largely over apparently.

(OK, OK - a Denial of Service attack on Twitter is interesting in itself*, but a Day without Twitter is not the Day The Earth Stood Still)

Speaking of Denial and this Real World thing, I also read that some coffee shops are starting to think about Denial of Service to laptop users who will hog a (revenue producing) table for ours on one measly cup of coffee. I do know of one place that has wifi use on a timer, maybe we will see more of that coming?

*See Pete and Adriana's comments below.....relying on these sort of architectures for critical path infrastructure is clearly becoming a risk for users, and for developers