• Mashable, Tuesday, September 7, 2010 8:58 PM

The next time the Fail Whale pops up while you are attempting fruitlessly to post your missive on what you found floating in your Cheerios, blame Justin Bieber. This according Mashable, which has it from what it's sussed as a reliable source inside Twitter that 3% of of the microblogging services' servers are dedicated to Bieber and Bieber alone.

Web designer Dustin Curtis, who originally quoted the stat, tells Mashable, "Every time Bieber tweets, his messages have to be delivered to more than five million people who then endlessly retweet it. Apparently, his account receives more than 60 @-replies per second for a while after he tweets, which is something Twitter wasn't originally designed to handle."

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