For those government agencies using Twitter for notification, 311 and other services I’ll bet its been a tough morning.

They may want to have a look at Identi.ca – a competing (albeit much smaller) micro-blogging site that even piggybacks on Twitter’s API. I’ve said before that government’s need to spread the love among different social networking sites.

I’m guessing that today there are more people who will be receptive to such advice…