Twitter is currently down for maintenance.
We expect to be back in about an hour. Thanks for your patience.
"How can they take Twitter down?" she asked Bubblewrap Bob. "Twitter is supposed to be at our beck and call to confirm our living state, 24 hours a day. How can we know we're alive - how can we live - if Twitter is not there to confirm, record and spread that?"
Bob shrugged. "Nice note though. Like those classic 'back in 5 min' notes lecturers leave on their doors when disappearing for the summer."
"Well," Keitu sighed, "it's not just a case in this instance of 'from when do you start counting the hour', I think it's also a case of _where_ you start counting the hour."
Bob was bemused. "An hour, surely, is an hour, although the clock might say a different time?"
"Not at all!" Keitu shook her head. "An hour on Mars is very different to an hour on Jupiter. Tweets could have reached Venus by now, where there hours mean someting else entirely. And even on earth," she paused, "time means different things. The Hindu view of time is oscillating, and the Balinese cyclical."
"You mean," Bob paused, "We could be stuck in a groundhog day with Twitter down for maintenance... forever?"
"Well, it may seem like forever," Keitu smiled, "but it's just an hour!"
cross-posted from e/merge2008 blog