Apple Tablet Announcement Could Break Twitter

Twitter is already buckling under the weight of the massive buzz around Apple’s tablet. Ahead of the expected 1pm announcement, some tweets are already taking 4 to 5 minutes to post, Mashable reports. That sort of undermines Twitter’s “real-time” news appeal, on a day that promises a lot of news; the State of the Union is tonight. It wouldn’t be the first time Steve Jobs crashed Twitter—he did it at Macworld two years ago, when Twitter was a much younger service. (More Twitter stories.)