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When Obama Wins... Will Twitter Implode?

Andy Sternberg

Published May 13, 2008 11:00 PM

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, is joined by former Democratic presidential hopeful, John Edwards, at a rally today in Grand Rapids, Mich. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Last week a fun meme went through the Twitterverse... "When Obama wins..."

Well today as news broke that former presidential candidate and former senator John Edwards would endorse Barack Obama -- after months of speculation as to whether he would endorse at all -- Twitter crashed. Related? Most likely. While Twitter has been on the fritz lately, the Obama/Edwards tweets seem to have sent Twitter's backend beyond the land of 500 server errors and off the deep end.