Social network Twitter ground to a halt as it was overloaded with New Year messages.
In Australia the site crashed at about 4am and was out of action for more than an hour.
The crash coincided with midnight celebrations in Japan when revellers were sending a record 16,197 tweets per second.
The overload meant no one could post new messages or read existing ones. Instead, frustrated users were greeted with the error message: "Twitter is over capacity." (Daily Telegraph)
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