Super popular blog search and blog tracking service Technorati has gone down and the note says I am forbidden. Apparently I don’t have the permission to view the CN page nor the Technorati home page. Last month I wondered if Technorati was now Alexa 2.0. I’d typically be happy to call someone at Technorati to alert them about the outage but there’s no contact information on the site.

Please report in if you are also forbidden from viewing the site due to lack of permissions.

Update: now Technorati is noting that some "monster" has been let loose – perhaps that’s why my count is always wrong!

Doh! The Technorati Monster escaped again.

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