Facebook Goes Down, Gallows Humor Ensues on Twitter
Facebook went down Thursday, impeding access to the web site from browsers as well as third-party apps.
“We’re currently experiencing some site issues causing Facebook to be slow or unavailable for some users,” a spokeswoman told Wired.com in an e-mail. “We are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible.”
The outage was met with considerable amusement on Twitter, with many saying this was a great time to catch up on other things, or that the world was coming to an end, or that the world would finally get back on track with all the extra time we now have. “With Facebook down, you’d think productivity would increase. Nope. Everyone’s on Twitter bitching about it,” said @brandonzeman.
Some other thinly-veiled attempts to cop, on Twitter:
@StuffinMyBrain: I hate to be the one to tell you but all your Farmville animals died and your crops burned. Have a nice day.
@opb: BREAKING NEWS: Facebook is down. Worker productivity rises. U.S. climbs out of recession.
RIRInsider Virtual crops are dying, fake mafia members are taking over towns & Justin Bieber fans are actually doing their homework.
@antderosa Zuck isn’t turning Facebook back on unless he gets final edit on The Social Network (which opens Friday)
@sacca When Facebook goes down, everyone comes to Twitter to talk about it. When Twitter goes down, the world falls mute.@loubrutus DNS FAILURE: Facebook is down which means 9 months from today, many children will born.@ObscureGents With Facebook being down how will I be able to see what people I barely like are thinking?@Z100MoBounce Does that mean we have to actually…. Speak to real people?lox333 500 million people set to join Twitter just to find out why Facebook isnt workingthecajunboy I’m guessing that Russians can hear Sarah Palin’s anguished screams from their houses.
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Twitter Virus Spreading Like Wildfire (UPDATE: Virus is fixed says Twitter)
By Gabriel Perna | September 21, 2010 9:43 AM EDT Social media micro-blogging website Twitter is experiencing a rapidly spreading virus according tosoftware security firm Sophos. IBTimes Related Articles Related Topics Subscribe to The Economic Monitor
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Micro-blogging website Twitter is being impacted by a virus, users are instructed to stay away for the time being.Twitter says suffered security attack
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Subscribe to The Economic Monitor to get the day’s most relevant news, data and anlaysis . A malicious hacker has exploited the service by causing messages and third-party websites to pop up when a user moves their mouse over a link. The virus also causes users to “retweet” the virus to their followers. This has allowed it to spread like wildfire. In a blog, Sophos says the Twitter virus is potentially dangerous as it opens the potential for cybercriminals to redirect users to sites with malicious code or spam advertising pop-ups. The mouse over virus has worked on both Twitter’s original site and the redesigned version it introduced last week. Third-party Tweeting websites, such as TweetDeck, are not impacted by the virus. Twitter users are instructed by Sophos to stay off Twitter.com for the time being and use one of the third-party service websites. UPDATE: Twitter said on its status blog (http://status.twitter.com/post/1161435117/xss-attack-identified-and-patched) that the attack has been identified and patched.
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