Apparently you've been in a coma for the last 6 months as Twitter's problems were essentially all that TC and the related tech blog scene wrote about all winter long.
If Twitter is getting a 'pass', I don't want to know what a 'hard time' looks like from Arrington and the crew.
A hard time would have been to ignore Twitter completely.
Instead, they bombarded people with articles trumpeting the service, but showing the problems. The publicity was good, even though it was talking about downtime, it introduced people to twitter.
If Twitter is getting a 'pass', I don't want to know what a 'hard time' looks like from Arrington and the crew.