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What terrible timing to be rolling out your new site when you have thousands of Techcrunch readers going to your site from reading this article. You have only 1 shot at getting visitors to your site.

I’d highly suggest that you perform site maintenance late at night where the traffic is low.

Best regards and good luck.

Twitter as a tool, WILL grow beyond Twitter the company. It’s quickly becoming a communication mechanism that won’t be controlled or owned by any one entity. The Twitter protocol, while not formalized, will eventually evolve in the way email did in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

If Twitter has really been offered anywhere between $500M – $700M dollars, they are foolish not to sell.

Off topic, but does anybody know why the bit.ly click counter is so off.