Love me some Twitter. Have a gas explosion in your neighborhood? Someone with a gun? Twitter knows and informs before the cops. In fact, when we had a man on the loose after a workplace shooting, and I know I shouldn't admit this because it makes me everything that is disgusting about Americans -- but I used the Twitter to find the closest Starbucks that was open because they had shut down for the manhunt.
It's a place to come together and commiserate and help each other out. Sure, it could be as mundane as the closest Starbucks, but it's also good for venting.
Apparently, over the Christmas holiday, Netflix was down. Their servers crashed and no doubt, their higher-ups were on vacation. There was no Bruno Mars to do vocals for the A Christmas Story. (SNL reference.) Here are some of the entertaining Tweets via CNN that helped those who were without their entertainment over Christmas.
Chris D'Elia (@chrisdelia)
"So @netflix is down? Great. Now everybody has to talk to their annoying family."
Razzle Dangerously (@MyNameisRazzle2)
"Netflix is down, most likely overloaded... Which means I'm not the only one bored as hell at his parents house.."
Jess Dweck (@TheDweck)
"Amazon Web Services crashes on Christmas Eve, taking out Netflix but not Amazon Video. Somewhere, (Amazon CEO) Jeff Bezos reads "The Grinch" to his kids."
Tyler (@TylerWards)
'"Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a @netflix was streaming, not even Mickey Mouse."
Jane McGonigal (@avantgame)
"Netflix streaming, please come back online, I need to stream my Fireplace in the Home/Yule Log on my TV while we make gingerbread xoxo"
Sophia Van Elsberg (@sophiavanelsber)
"Netflix being broken is forcing me to get up and do something with my life #notcool"
Sassy in Slumberland (@SassyinSlumberl)
"Netflix is down. Bc bad things happen to good people."
Joel Braverman (@joelbrave)
"Thanks to @netflix outage we can likely expect a moderate population explosion in nine months."
Lauren McLaughlin (@lauren_mclaugh)
"How the Grinch Stole Netflix..."
#Vanityreloaded2k13 (@GeorgeJalloh)
"Some kid probably asked Santa for #Netflix to be down so his parents would pay attention to him. Leave me out of your problems, kid."
Seriously though, I don't know how that Netflix CEO keeps his job...
I don't think anyone caught it, but I had a favorite Twitter moment the other week. The Xavier U vs. U of Cincinnati basketball game is huge here. I like to watch, and I went to another school, with just as many if not more accomplishments though farther away from the local newsmedia thankyou very much. Last year, it ended with a fight after a lot of trash talk. The solution? Call it the Crosstown Classic instead of Crosstown Shootout since that's a way less violent name. UC hired a new football coach a week or so prior. On his Twitter, he said he couldn't wait to see his first Crosstown Shootout in person. I'm wondering who's job it was to get him the memo.
Posted by: Lauri | January 02, 2013 at 09:04 AM
Oh my, we're such sheep, aren't we? Stanford was in the Rose Bowl, that was the big sports news around here. LOL
Posted by: Kristin Billerbeck | January 02, 2013 at 09:16 AM
Yeah; I'm a bit frustrated because I have a netflix dvd account and its frozen and they can't figure out how to unfreeze it. Their solution is to cancel the account and start a new one. Which means redoing my queue all over again.
Posted by: Leslie | January 02, 2013 at 03:19 PM
Amazon published a letter admitting that it was their fault that Netflix went down, since Netflix runs all of their streaming from Amazon. A programmer with Amazon deleted a file he shouldn't have in production and sent the whole thing crashing down. There is one guy who got some coal in his stocking.
My favorite exchanges are when the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears play each other. The fans of both sides really pile the trash talk on :)
Posted by: Tony | January 02, 2013 at 05:57 PM
Good on Amazon for admitting it. Of course when you run all of retail youre going to make a mistake.
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Posted by: Kristin Billerbeck | January 02, 2013 at 06:30 PM
Oh my gosh. They need a new CEO so badly!
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Posted by: Kristin Billerbeck | January 02, 2013 at 08:46 PM
I had absolutely no idea that Netflix and Amazon had any sort of relation. That actually bothers me a bit.
Posted by: Leslie | January 03, 2013 at 02:18 PM