Nottingham Post published Digital blog: Don't put all your eggs in one social media basket

Don't panic! Don't panic! Alas, you may have heard the news but Facebook, Twitter, AOL Messenger, Hip Chat and Instagram have all suffered from intermittent down time throughout the early morning of Tuesday 27th. Despite being a fairly common occurrence among certain web services (online gaming networks are forever being attacked and shut off, sometimes for weeks on end), for social media going offline is the stuff of myth. For example, the last notable outage on Facebook was September 24,...