The timing of the outage, though brief, came as Twitter has been gearing up for a big push with the Olympics, which kick off Friday.

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To catalog the kaleidoscopic excellences of Mr. Brown's cast would leave no room to say more, though brief mention must be made of Jonathan Weir's letter-perfect Fredrik Egerman and Brandon Dahlquist's gloriously fatuous Count Carl-Magnus.

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The content is breezy and fun, though the brief, au courant English introductions from a young American woman in Paris can be silly.

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