Act.ly Weathers Amazon Cloud Disaster On Earth Day
April 22, 2011 at 17:28 PM EDT
Everyone's favorite under-estimator of social media, Malcolm Gladwell , might get a chuckle out of Amazon's EC2 problems this week. First, they took out Foursquare, Reddit and Quora service, as TechCrunch's Mike Butcher reported yesterday . The disaster in the cloud also put a stop to those who would Tweet the revolution via Act.ly, a site that gets petitions going virally, online. The site and service was still out of order as of publication. Act.ly founder Jim Gilliam said: "We usually get several thousand activism tweets a day. That hasn't happened for 36 hours, because of these issues with Amazon and...