In an appearance on TechCrunch today, troubled OmniDrive founder Nic Cubrilovic chimed in on Twitter's downtime issues. Good thing the OmniDrive website is working today — otherwise that would be really awkward. [TechCrunch]

Until a recent article from ReadWriteWeb declaring online file-storage and sharing service Omnidrive dead, founder and CEO Nik Cubrilovic was missing in action. The support forums for customers went unattended even as the site went down. An investor, Clay Cook, who sunk six figures into the company couldn't get a reply to his email. Also nowhere to be found? Any reporting from TechCrunch.

Dead startups, lying CEOs, and disgruntled, unpaid employees seem to follow Michael Arrington wherever he goes. He doesn't cause them, but he sure seems to attract them. First there was Edgeio. Now, the latest is online-storage company OmniDrive, a startup which the conflicts-embracing TechCrunch editor invested last year. Nik Cubrilovic, OmniDrive's founder and CEO, disputes the assertion that it may be time to put the company on deathwatch. Former employees disagree, pointing out that it's in a crowded market of bigger players, is beset by technical problems, and rumored to have lost its CTO. What's the real story?