This deserves to be the top comment. Your one liner nailed it. Twitter was down long enough for far more people not to notice than did notice. Shit goes down. It always will. Whining about how whoever needs backups or failover protection or distributed networks of servers across the planet or should use a VPS instead or a dedicated server instead or Heroku instead or EC2 instead or a combination of all that crap doesn't make you right. It makes you a speculator. No amount of fallbacks will give you 100% uptime ever. And calling this a massive failure is also ludicrous. It's just some downtime. It went right back up so chill.

These posts are so incredibly annoying. We can see if service x is down for ourselves. That isn't news. I could maybe accept these stories if the link on the front page was to a blog post stating that not only is service x down but why it went down for sure plus an added lesson we can learn from it. Short of that it's become an easy way for people to build up a trillion karma points. And if you want to tell me you don't care about karma then you're either lying or you have none. Enough with this crap. We'll find out ourselves but most of us won't actually because we have lives and by the time we go online to check our favorite wank-off site it'll probably be back up again like the past fifty times I've seen a story about Heroku/AWS/Twitter being down.