tag:blog.tmcnet.com,2013:/blog/tom-keating//4/tag:blog.tmcnet.com,2010:/blog/tom-keating//4.43105- Comments for Massachusetts election knocks CNN Offline VoIP & Gadgets blog - Latest news in VoIP & gadgets, wireless, mobile phones, reviews, & opinions Movable Type 4.38 tag:blog.tmcnet.com,2010:/blog/tom-keating//4.43105 2010-01-20T01:45:03Z 2010-01-20T04:00:16Z Massachusetts election knocks CNN Offline Apparently there is huge interest in the Mass election. I'm watching live precinct reports on CNN and their website went down. No doubt lots of other news sites are seeign a huge spike in traffic.  (I'm sure tomorrow we'll see... Tom Keating http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/  
This was the message I got on politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com: (note it came up about a minute later)
 
 

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Update
Apparently MichelleMalkin.com and Hotair.com went down (two popular websites) as well.
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