also, "us in the media", what kind of whore talk is that even? twitter is correctly referrerd to in w3c docs as medium preventing intelligent discussion. so it was down? GOOD. people are inconvenienced? even better! it cannot possibly have hit anyone or anything that was worth fuck all.
I'm not sure why you suggest RSS is somehow synonymous with Twitter, but I will say that in addition to RSS buttons almost every major media company on the planet has a Twitter button on its article page (I work on one, which is why I say "us in media"). Because many sites don't do proper async JS when it comes to social buttons, an outage on socnets can be crippling
it's called hacker news. but for starters, "hacker" implies not being spineless or giving a fuck about peer groups. hackers also don't like censorship; so you see how hacker news is anything but. it's an involuntary joke, nothing more.
the word has been appropiated by those who are needy like that: you don't call yourself hacker, just like you don't call yourself saint. only mediocre people to whom it never applied and never will would do that. the end.
also, "us in the media", what kind of whore talk is that even? twitter is correctly referrerd to in w3c docs as medium preventing intelligent discussion. so it was down? GOOD. people are inconvenienced? even better! it cannot possibly have hit anyone or anything that was worth fuck all.