Blame Twitter.

Lee Hopkins of Better Communication Results picked up on this post from Social Media Mafia:

News fresh to hand:

From Social Media Mafia and a Facebook link courtesy of Omar Ha-Redeye comes this frightening correlation:

A new study suggests that Twitter is the root cause of the current economic malaise. Policy experts predict a Twitter moratorium may be declared for Summer 2009 as part of an effort to stimulate economic production and reverse GDP declines.