Whenever Twitter goes down, the Twitterratcy have nowhere to voice their 140-character pearls of wisdom.

Withdrawal can set in and in need of a fix, desperate people during Twitter downtime turn to Facebook.

Long live Mark Zuckerberg!

You will notice a flutter of Facebook status updates beginning to pop up that look suspiciously like tweets.

Facebook police will just have to chalk the posts up to #hashtagfrenzy and move on.

Twitter is still down, having gone down at around 9am this morning…