15,000 suicides so far, and the number is expected to rise.

Twitter hit by major disruption

"Twitter has been hit by a major bug that has seen many users of the service lose all of their followers and friends. "

It was just sad. I was in downtown San Jose and Mountain View, and there were all these people wandering around with lost expressions, reflexively poking the refresh buttons on their iPhones in vain. Fortunately the police are on it and are keeping them from wandering into traffic, so far.