Twitter yesterday rescheduled downtime around the Iran Election Protest. Something which no doubt surprised a lot of people.

A critical network upgrade must be performed to ensure continued operation of Twitter. In coordination with Twitter, our network host had planned this upgrade for tonight. However, our network partners at NTT America recognize the role Twitter is currently playing as an important communication tool in Iran. Tonight’s planned maintenance has been rescheduled to tomorrow between 2-3p PST (1:30a in Iran).

It just shows how important Twitter has become for reporting news. Clearly Twitter realises this as well or they wouldn’t have rescheduled. Nearly every major worldwide website schedules their downtime during nighttime in the USA as that is where most of their traffic comes from so doing the maintenence in the afternoon was a big surprise to a lot of people.

Link : Down Time Rescheduled