As 'New York Times' Goes Down, Twitter Gets Comical

The New York Times website and mobile apps were down for more than two hours Wednesday, causing widespread panic across the Internet. Not because everyone was afraid about missing breaking news, but everyone scrambled to tweet witty one-liners about the outage.

Of course, Twitter was no let down, quickly generating a storm of jokes about cyberattacks and finger-pointing toward Amazon CEO — and new owner of The Washington Post — Jeff Bezos.

Even the Times got in on the jokes about their own outage, because you can't sit out a trending topic when there is humor to be had Read more...