Reactions ranged from Debby in Germany, who took the opportunity to abuse Twitter with profanity:

To Thom Stoodley, who proposed an explanation for the outage:

Then there were those who seemed resigned but resentful, like Tumblrer sarahsamudre, who capped the strange landing page and simply wrote, "I want to use <%=reason %> as my excuse for things."

The despairing and Twitterless masses also took their wailing and gnashing of teeth to Facebook timelines:

Chicago Tribune columnist Rex Huppke's Facebook response was particularly eloquent, as if the vox populi on both Tumblr and Facebook were momentarily channeled through him and him alone:

So say we all, Mr. Huppke.