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“We regret to announce that Twitter is temporarily over capacity,” said David Scheyd, director of communications for Twitter. “Apparently Kevin Nalty (aka Nalts) began Twittering so frequently, our spam bots thought it was a virus and protected itself from a potential compromise.” Nalty, who tweeted about 48 times in the past several hours, said it…

Two points an a hug. A very important ingredient to a video prank, and yet one often omitted from online-video pranks. We’ll get to the meaning of “two points and a hug” shortly, and then dovetail surprisingly into a far heavier topic: my view of the painfully unethical television show “What Would You Do?” The victims on…