Tablet magazine exposed New Yorker writer Jonah Lehrer’s made-up Dylan quotes today.
https://twitter.com/marcatracy/status/229988722798645249
As a result, Lehrer has resigned.
Jonah Lehrer has resigned from The New Yorker http://t.co/OYTNNfgx
— Tablet Magazine (@tabletmag) July 30, 2012
Another result? The heavy traffic that results from a hot story.
Can you all stop reading @mcmoynihan's takedown of Jonah Lehrer? You've crashed the website! And I haven't read it yet!
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) July 30, 2012
https://twitter.com/nbj914/status/230002352546004992
Please bear with us as our sit is getting slammed with traffic. We're trying as best we can to get back up.
— Tablet Magazine (@tabletmag) July 30, 2012
Tablet Magazine's website has crashed after breaking story about New Yorker writer making up stuff. @tabletmag
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) July 30, 2012
Tablet seems to have confused super heavy traffic with an attack. Did Lehrer strike back?
THE LEHRER ARMY MT @tabletmag We're suffering a DDOS attack. Techs are working to get things back up.
— Adrian Chen (@AdrianChen) July 30, 2012
The internet is hard!
By whom? AnonLehrer? RT @tabletmag: We're suffering a DDOS attack. … Google cache of the Lehrer piece is here: http://t.co/gma50u8T
— Mister Bunny (@AskMisterBunny) July 30, 2012
@tabletmag probably not DDoS, just the popular site server overload phenomenon, no? Slashdotted/ Reddited/ twitter-Lehrer'd?
— Giulia Forsythe (@giuliaforsythe) July 30, 2012
@tabletmag Is it an actual attack or does everyone just want to see the piece?
— Peter Sterne? (@petersterne) July 30, 2012
https://twitter.com/jwherrman/status/230001155739103233
ATTN @tabletmag : A rush of traffic for a hot story is NOT a "DDOS attack" Turn on caching. pic.twitter.com/u9whH3QC
— Dan Nguyen (@dancow) July 30, 2012
@dancow I love how the Cloudflare page on Tablet Mag just tells you to refresh the page and see if it's up yet
— Trace Gilton (@tracegilton) July 30, 2012
https://twitter.com/daweiner/status/230002130554068992
https://twitter.com/nemoran3/status/230001890451156992
Or is it?
If there really is a DDOS attack on Tablet, it must be a coincidence; I don't think Jonah Lehrer is a hacker. (Jewish sites do have enemies)
— John Tabin (@johntabin) July 30, 2012
@tjl @johntabin In all fairness, I think Tablet might have a reason to be paranoid about DDOS attacks.
— PJ Doland (@pjdoland) July 30, 2012
https://twitter.com/mattnycs/status/230004034558386178
Heh. In any event, while techie stuff may be hard for Tablet, they deserve kudos for the Lehrer exposé.
https://twitter.com/lawrencegutman/status/230012341528449025