Shame on FOXNEWS! Are you jealous of Twitter or just living under a rock?

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In reading my news feeds today, I came across this FoxNews report about Twitter being hacked and taken down at 9am this morning.  What struck me was not the crisis of the mighty micro-blog being taken down by hackers or that the problem seemed to also permeate Facebook; it was the utter lack of understanding of the importance of Twitter being inaccessible by the author.  How trivial s/he made the outage of a site that has changed the face of real-time reporting (Iran election violence news, anyone remember that??) sound. 

Here is a direct quote from the article "For Twitter users, the outage meant no tweeting about lunch plans, the weather or the fact that Twitter is down." 
Apparently this antiquated old school media reporter has never spent any real time on Twitter to know that there is a lot more going on that the sharing of lunch plans. 

Here is what I have to say to this no-name, byline-less, out of touch AP reporter, "Hey pal, maybe this is the reason new media is close to putting you out of business?  Try catching up - its 2009, you know."