I did not make up the pun. Credit goes to Wired that tries to make a story out of the fact that communication technology can be used by militants:

Could Twitter become terrorists’ newest killer app? A draft Army intelligence report, making its way through spy circles, thinks the miniature messaging software could be used as an effective tool for coordinating militant attacks.

Effective? I am certain the report does not mention the availability and performance issues of Twitter. Real-time communication channels require resilience, which Twitter certainly does not have figured out.

Twitter is broken. People are updating and most of the updates are simply not coming through.

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We’re all used to Twitter outages, but this is something different.

And why should they? What’s the economic incentive, the market if you will, for Twitter to provide a highly-available service? Don’t tell me, they just received funding by an obscure company in the Middle East…but seriously, any communication channel of any kind is going to be fair game for good and bad purposes. Given all the needs of an operation (e.g. mobility, confidentiality, availability) I would rank Twitter fairly low on the list of things to bother with. It has more theoretical relevance than actual.