Google has announced that as part of their Super Tuesday coverage they will be teaming up with Twitter to provide live updates from people all around the country (and actually the world apparently) as they vote/think about voting/watch coverage of the elections. While I think it’s great that Google is utilizing Twitter, I can’t help but wonder if this will lead to another massive Twitter outage.

While Twitter seems to have rebounded nicely from a rough few days where they were out for hours at a time, it seems pretty clear that any major event can still take them down in a heartbeat (MacWorld). They did manage to stay online during the Super Bowl, so perhaps their move from Joyent did produce some results.

I also find it interesting that Google would choose to partner up with Twitter (apparently also utilizing the 3rd party app Twittervision), rather than try to use their own property Jaiku. Google has basically done nothing with Jaiku since acquiring the service last year – and in fact still has it shut down from allowing new sign ups. I know I haven’t logged-in in months.

This event would have seemed like the perfect roll out for a newly useful, Google-branded Jaiku. Instead they go with Twitter – Google also acquired Ev Williams’ Blogger back in the day remember, should we be reading deeper?