As previously reported, Twitter has been experiencing some downtime today. It seems to be coming and going. Meanwhile, users have been flockig to other social networks to talk about how Twitter is down. That includes Google+, where there is no shortage of chatter about it.
Buzzfeed went so far as to say Google+ users are being “total dicks”. I’m not sure I’m seeing that kind of hostility, but some are certainly making light of it.
Here are some of the Google+ updates we’ve seen:
Come on Plusers, you are better that this…
http://www.buzzfeed.com/tommywilhelm/google-users-being-total-dicks-about-the-twitter
Google+ Users Being Total Dicks About The Twitter Outage
A lot of Twitter users flocked to Google+ to get through today's outage. Unfortunately, they weren't always welcome.
First step is admitting you have a problem.
Via +Jesse Stay I learned #twitter is down!……… So come here get a much richer experience. No limited texts
BREAKING #NEWS : #TWITTER #failwhale Secret revealed…not really…
Ok, #Twitter is down. Deal with it.
It’s interesting that Google itself chose to display this random “From the web” result in a search for “#twitter” (especially considering I don’t get that result when searching the web on Google.com):
Perhaps it’s the popularity of the video at 163 views (at the time of this writing).
Here’s the actual video. It’s gold.