Oh, the humanity! NYT website goes down; Mockery goes way, way up

The @nytimes website is down due to a cyberattack, according to @MattMEgan5, senior reporter at @FoxBusiness.

— Rubina Madan Fillion (@rubinafillion) August 14, 2013

!!! RT @MattMEgan5: Breaking: Website of @NYTimes is under #cyber attack, source tells @FoxBusiness – $NYT #DDoS

— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) August 14, 2013

Latest details on what source tells FBN is a #cyber attack on the website of @nytimes: http://t.co/HWOEGIkgUS $NYT #DDoS @jbooton

— Matt Egan (@MattMEgan5) August 14, 2013

I point at my eyes, then at you, then at my eyes, then at you… just trying to fill the day until The New York Times site comes back up

— smelendez (@smelendez) August 14, 2013

Somebody broke the NYT and apparently they are not on it.

— Ahmad Zaghal (@ahmadmzaghal) August 14, 2013

New York Times tells me: "The site does appear ato be down; we're looking into it." $NYT @nytimes

— Julia Boorstin (@JBoorstin) August 14, 2013

The Times is down, and the Times is on it. $NYT

— Jonathan Marino (@JonMarino) August 14, 2013

The New York Times Web site is experiencing technical difficulties. We expect to be back up shortly.

— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 14, 2013

There are technical difficulties at http://t.co/i5NQrTmXJp that we hope to resolve soon. For news on Egypt's crisis, follow @nytimesworld

— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 14, 2013

The New York Times website is down and the Times is ON IT?

— Matt O'Brien (@ObsoleteDogma) August 14, 2013

Somewhere in the New York Times office: "Do websites crash often? Why and to whom? Get the trend team on it."

— CJ Ciaramella (@cjciaramella) August 14, 2013

Can't NY do better than "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable" RT @obsoletedogma: The New York Times website is down and the Times is ON IT?

— Pullquote.com (@pllqt) August 14, 2013

The NYT site is down and Johnny is ON IT. http://t.co/4nyA1p9xja

— Ian Schafer (@ischafer) August 14, 2013

Bezos wasn't playing around when he bought the Washington Post. First strike, NYT. WSJ may want to update their firmware.

— Bill (@Hokibil) August 14, 2013

Maybe the NYT tried to read 11 of its own articles without subscribing.

— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) August 14, 2013

The New York Times Website decides it's officially done with this shit.

— Nick Kolakowski (@nkolakowski) August 14, 2013

I go away from the internet for an hour and the New York Times site goes down? YOU HAD *ONE JOB* PEOPLE.

— dan sinker (@dansinker) August 14, 2013

The NYT going offline is the false flag to beat all false flags.

— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) August 14, 2013

Broken browser windows. RT @hale_razor NYT site down, which will surely result in a boom for the economy. #PaulKrugmanLogic

— jon gabriel (@exjon) August 14, 2013

The New York Times site and app are down. Help! Where do we go for liberal media?!

— Justin Parnell (@juparnell) August 14, 2013