A power outage at a downtown New York data center on Monday took several popular websites offline, including the entire Gawker network of sites as well as Mediaite and the Huffington Post.
Gawker is temporarily down because the 57th Street Crane just flooded our servers with sea foam, or something. Back with you shortly.
— Gawker (@Gawker) October 29, 2012
New York City residents this morning were worried about shortages of batteries and bottled water, but now users worldwide are facing a sudden and unexpected shortage of places to web surf.
uh-oh, @BuzzFeed and @Gawker are down? where will i get my GIFs and my snark, respectively? #Sandy http://t.co/EBCxXhpd
— Tim Campbell (@TimothyCampbell) October 29, 2012
@gawker and @gizmodo are down?? I guess this means I can actually be productive studying for midterms tonight, but I'm not happy about it.
— Kate Edwards (@k8eddie) October 29, 2012
Gawker, BuzzFeed and HuffPo are all down. No worries, New Yorkers will continue to snark on. #MournYouUntilIJoinYou
— Stephon Pujols-Johnson (@StephonPJohnson) October 29, 2012
BuzzFeed, HuffPost, and Gawker are down. So who's going to make the list of 17 awesome websites that went down during #Sandy?
— Upworthy (@Upworthy) October 29, 2012
What about my LOL cats? RT @TechCrunch: Sandy Attacks The Web: Gawker, BuzzFeed and Huffington Post Are Down http://t.co/bzsvWL6F
— Steven Aguiar (@ricenbeats) October 29, 2012
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Gawker is down! Reddit trolls, now’s your chance!!
— Mike E (@blackavar) October 29, 2012
https://twitter.com/jonathanwald/status/263058707632500737
Celebs go wild as Huffington Post and Gawker sites go down…
— TT (@TinkaTayla) October 29, 2012
Celebs are welcome to go crazy in real life but are asked to stay indoors and keep tweeting; Twitchy is up and running and going strong.
BuzzFeed and Gawker are down. You may experience an unfamiliar emotional reaction to events. This is known as earnestness and should pass.
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) October 29, 2012
Gawker, Buzzfeed down due to flooding from Hurricane Sandy. Best. Hurricane. EVER. http://t.co/UC91fpd3
— carl carlson's enchanted jockstrap (@jockohobo) October 29, 2012
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