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Twitter has been flooded with complaints about a power outage at Equinix’s Sydney data centre which apparently knocked out data and network systems, including VoIP. Equinix operates facilites in Europe, North America and the Asia Pacific regions, with the data centre in the Sydney suburb of Mascot suffering the reported failure. Equinix’s Sydney office could not give any details about the outage at this time.

VoIP service provider MyNetFone issued a statement about a power outage. “We apologise for the service interruption on Thursday 2nd July 2009 between 11:40am EST and 1:00pm. The problem was caused by a nation-wide power outage which triggered a total loss of power at our colocation facility in Sydney.”

Source: Tech World

Micro-blogging service Twitter was abuzz with tweets following a hotly disputed weekend presidential election in Iran, causing NTT America, which provides hosting for Twitter, to delay a critical network upgrade because of Twitter’s important role in bypassing the government’s attempts to silence traditional news reports.

The originally scheduled for Monday evening to make space for traffic increases over the past few months, Twitter requested the network capacity upgrade more than 7,000 miles away from the election at its San Jose facility to be delayed. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said in a blog post that NTT readily cooperated, having recognized Twitter’s important role in Iran at that time. It postponed the upgrade until Tuesday afternoon.

Source: The WHIR