Monday, August 19, 2013

Amazon.com Went Down For Almost an Hour, Now Back Up

Breaking News: 
Amazon.com finally is up after being down for 30 - 40 minutes. There is still no word on the cause, but twitter was buzzing with comments. here is our favorite: 

Kathleen Schmidt ‏@Bookgirl96
AMAZON IS DOWN. Go hug an author.

Here is a link to some more twitter humor. 




Update Earlier Today: 

 Amazon.com is down. There’s no word on the cause, so of course rumors abound the internet ranging from hackers activity to problems during system updates. Users trying to login to Amazon.com from San Francisco to San Diego, Los Angeles to New York saw this page: 





This is the second time this year when Amazon.com front end website has gone down. There were reports of widespread unavailability on January 31st as well. 


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