Twitter goes down (again) but will it soon be counted out for good?

If the hackers and botnet merchants don’t bring Twitter down then, at least according to a new Gartner report, general disillusionment might. In the wonderfully entitled ‘Hype Cycle Special Report 2009‘ which evaluates the maturity of 1,650 technologies and trends in 79 technology, topic and industry areas, Gartner argues that the Twitter explosion has meant that the “inevitable disillusionment around ‘channel pollution’ is beginning”.