North Korea launches rocket; Launch fails; Reactions from Twitter

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Understandably, a lot of people on Twitter freaked out:

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Fortunately, the news soon broke that the launch had failed:

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And Twitter was able to relax and be snarky:

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Josh Treviño was able to bring today’s news full-circle:

https://twitter.com/#!/jstrevino/status/190578515308068865

And then, well, there was this:

https://twitter.com/#!/jstrevino/status/190579364017094658

MSNBC really scored when they snatched her up as a political contributor before anyone else did. They rely on keen analysis of world events over there.

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Nathan Wurtzel and Eric H. offer more sobering perspectives:

https://twitter.com/#!/NathanWurtzel/status/190580160305700864

https://twitter.com/#!/ericinva/status/190582013122719746