Twitter was broken, and it was great

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge For a brief, blissful period of time, Twitter was in the midst of an outage for its most basic function: sending your thoughts into the ether via tweeting. On DownDetector, the service showed a spike in problems over the last hour or so. Tweets sent bounced right back; retweets are also limited.
But there’s still a secret way to tweet: we discovered that scheduling tweets lets you successfully get your message out there. (You may need to use Twitter