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10 best tweets and posts about Twitter being down

Twitter was down for a half-hour Thursday morning, came back up briefly, then failed again. Here are the funniest posts and tweets about it.

  1. There there. You can put the ice cream down and stop bawling. Twitter's back up. It'll be good for us all to talk about it. 
  2. #WhileTwitterWasDown:
    OneDawson_
    ·
    Thu, Jun 21 2012 13:22:34

  3. 10. Sniveling in the rain

  4. Me when Twitter was down twitpic.com/9yyuhp
    D3str0ya@abcdefJaymz
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    Thu, Jun 21 2012 10:24:42

  5. 9. "Lame ex-boyfriend Facebook"

  6. Emily V Gordon
    Emily V Gordon
    With Twitter down, it seems everyone is running back to their lame ex-boyfriend, Facebook.
    Thu, Jun 21 2012 10:04:14

  7. 8. Nooooooo!

  8. Me when Twitter was down twitpic.com/9yyth2
    ~rice cooker~@awkwardnoodles
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    Thu, Jun 21 2012 10:22:14

  9. 7. Siri says sorry

  10. I powered my phone off and on and it was still down. I asked Siri what was wrong with twitter and everything... http://pic.twitter.com/DwreDzaI
    Chris Sino@CHRIS_SINO
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    Thu, Jun 21 2012 10:37:27

  11. 6. Made a list!

  12. RT @rhodri: While Twitter was down I attempted to make a list of things to do when Twitter goes down. #whentwittergoesdown http://pic.twitter.com/JWShAqYc
    cristina rocks@CristinaRocks
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    Thu, Jun 21 2012 10:37:14

  13. 5. Exile in "Facebookazan"

  14. jeeveswilliams
    Jeeves Won'tiams@jeeveswilliams
    TWITTER, I DID MY WAITING. TWELVE YEARS OF IT. IN FACEBOOKAZAN.
    Thu, Jun 21 2012 10:24:34

  15. 4. Looting?

  16. edyong209
    Ed Yong @edyong209
    Twitter was down, but now it's back. The question we should ask ourselves is: do we return all the stuff we looted?
    Thu, Jun 21 2012 10:24:58

  17. 3. That's a lot of re-loading

  18. RT @DWTSGossip: While #twitter was down :)))) http://pic.twitter.com/sT5kRwu5
    Melanie Battson@2006Solstice
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    Thu, Jun 21 2012 10:39:14

  19. 3 1/2. And trying to tweet about not being able to tweet

  20. lheron
    Liz Heron@lheron
    Be honest. Did you spend most of Twitter being down desperately trying to tweet about Twitter being down?
    Thu, Jun 21 2012 10:25:29

  21. 2. Post-Its stuck to birds!

  22. PavementRunner
    Pavement Runner@PavementRunner
    Yay, twitter is back! I didn't know what to do... I started writing my tweets down on post-its and sticking them to birds.
    Thu, Jun 21 2012 10:20:01

  23. 1. That's quite a GIF!

  24. This is basically me when Twitter was down... twitpic.com/9yyrsc
    Hannah :)@HugMeLouisT
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    Thu, Jun 21 2012 10:18:05

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Social media journalist. Social lead at SFGate, online arm of The San Francisco Chronicle. Former marketing director at Storify. Former syndicated newspaper columnist. Studied social media at Stanford. Led social for Fortune 50. Met Johnny Cash.

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