The Verge is publishing through a live Google doc because fastly went down this morning, then this happened. Our whole online information infrastructure is so much more tenuous and ridiculous than we usually consider. https://t.co/dews8SYEWt

— Kevin Collier (@kevincollier) June 8, 2021

Luckily WhatsApp is working, so Westminster and the government are still functioning

— Jessica Elgot (@jessicaelgot) June 8, 2021

"Despite speculation on social media that the outage was the result of a malicious attack, leading to the hashtag #cyberattack trending on Twitter, there is no evidence pointing to foul play"https://t.co/Su1Lz8nPYI pic.twitter.com/BwMOKfzljz

— Fabio Chiusi (@fabiochiusi) June 8, 2021

Thank the lord TechCrunch has survived https://t.co/ZynrDSTugd

— Thomas Brewster (@iblametom) June 8, 2021

Let’s not centralize the internet so much, shall we? A blip this time, catastrophic next time. #internetdown https://t.co/iyl5oxQlRL

— Jenn Dize ??‍?Bit.ly/RickSnyderFlint (@JennElizabethJ) June 8, 2021

Masses of sites down, including https://t.co/GEWJUecrvM and many news sites

— Rory Cellan-Jones (@ruskin147) June 8, 2021

Fastly said: "The issue has been identified and a fix has been applied. Customers may experience increased origin load as global services return." A number of sites that were hit early appeared to be coming back online. https://t.co/xYZGR42MaB

— The Associated Press (@AP) June 8, 2021

Regarding this morning's widespread website outages: "Typically an outage of this nature occurs when a vital internet infrastructure service faces an issue. An apparent glitch at Fastly, a popular CDN provider, is thought to be the reason..." https://t.co/GVbnxto3G3

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 8, 2021

Good morning! Content delivery networks (CDNs) closely resemble critical infrastructure in the 21st century for digital governments.@fastly told the @guardian a “configuration error” was at fault:https://t.co/psFaYVQKRA “there is no evidence pointing to foul play”-@alexhern https://t.co/KRQPMRGlTI pic.twitter.com/F8w4WHzDAL

— Alex Howard (@digiphile) June 8, 2021

Imagine if a pinched nerve could make your whole body collapse and stop working… https://t.co/hupctN8P14 pic.twitter.com/NBNIqxDshN

— Hal Sparks (@HalSparks) June 8, 2021

excited to start my job as chief marketing officer of Fastly, with my pitched campaign of 'everyone should know who we are and what we do' time to sit down and take a big sip of cof

— David Wyllie (@journodave) June 8, 2021

The whole Internet loves Decentralized Packet Switching Network, a lovely topology with no central points of failure! *50 years later* We regret to inform you

— Kieran Healy (@kjhealy) June 8, 2021

We are aware of the issues with https://t.co/uLPSBt4jdQ which means that users may not be able to access the site. This is a wider issue affecting a number of other non-government sites. We are investigating this as a matter of urgency.

— GOV.UK (@GOVUK) June 8, 2021

Major internet outage developing after Fastly went down earlier pic.twitter.com/e8btYQEFlC

— Catalin Cimpanu (@campuscodi) June 8, 2021

There’s really no point in having a distributed Internet if every major player is going to put their infrastructure behind the same proxy. https://t.co/x9jfZl6KOY

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) June 8, 2021

When there's a HUGE outage, it's usually a config error. https://t.co/ZEu5q49zFm

— Arieh Kovler (@ariehkovler) June 8, 2021

We did it everyone, we finally ran out of internet

— Pwn All The Things (@pwnallthethings) June 8, 2021

CNN looking good https://t.co/ct2WccNswF pic.twitter.com/dHwGtzpCdO

— Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick) June 8, 2021

This right here is why I'm bullish on Cloudflare @eastdakota @Cloudflare https://t.co/RtfLoHbcNk

— Michael Arrington ?‍☠️ (@arrington) June 8, 2021

And we’re back! Normal service on the internet has resumed, with the outage traced back to CDN provider Fastly. We’ll see you all again in Google Docs for the next disaster. https://t.co/S8dQkKKgbD

— The Verge (@verge) June 8, 2021

Numerous websites were unavailable on Tuesday after an apparent widespread at cloud service company Fastly. Dozens of high-traffic websites including the New York Times, CNN, Twitch and the U.K. government’s home page, could not be reached.https://t.co/3Fl9MC8nrh

— The Associated Press (@AP) June 8, 2021

look ma, my mistake made some news https://t.co/gJBubw68jc

— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) June 8, 2021

We identified a service configuration that triggered disruptions across our POPs globally and have disabled that configuration. Our global network is coming back online. Continued status is available at https://t.co/RIQWX0LWwl

— Fastly (@fastly) June 8, 2021

This just in: The internet is important to our daily lives. If this can happen by accident, imagine what an adversary could do. https://t.co/LHTOTaPtTG

— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) June 8, 2021

Hey @johnmu - does GoogleBot go into special relax mode and take a bit of a vacation during these outages? https://t.co/ct2WccNswF

— Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick) June 8, 2021

UPDATE: Fastly, the popular content delivery network that experienced the outage, says a fix has been applied but that customers "may experience increased origin load as global services return." https://t.co/PH245cCt66

— Axios (@axios) June 8, 2021

DEVELOPING: Dozens of major websites — including The New York Times, CNN, Reddit, Spotify, Twitch, GitHub, https://t.co/i1kwrkg1G6, Hulu, HBO Max, PayPal, Vimeo, Shopify — went down during an apparent massive internet outage this morning. https://t.co/PH245cCt66

— Axios (@axios) June 8, 2021

Axios (@axios)
DEVELOPING: Dozens of major websites — including The New York Times, CNN, Reddit, Spotify, Twitch, GitHub, https://t.co/qQNBgHD5qK, Hulu, HBO Max, PayPal, Vimeo, Shopify — went down during an apparent massive internet outage this morning. https://t.co/oOxigzByez

— TheSadTruth? (@ReportsDaNews) June 8, 2021

NEW: Major news, social media sites down in massive internet outage https://t.co/tgnRjvM0kP

— Sara Fischer (@sarafischer) June 8, 2021

Cloud glitch brings down thousands of websites https://t.co/DzDmVOTDM6

— Financial Times (@FT) June 8, 2021

Cloud glitch brings down thousands of websites https://t.co/6rrmrj0LUD via @financialtimes

Seems like who you partner with for cloud really does matter. Financial institutions and fintech startups take note.

— Bradley Leimer (@leimer) June 8, 2021

Just in: Thousands of websites went offline for almost an hour on Tuesday, disrupting sites such as the BBC, Spotify, Twitch, Hulu and Reddit after an issue with the internet company Fastly https://t.co/10KqOopeCT

— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) June 8, 2021

Here is the @FT report by @tim on the cloud glitch that resulted in thousands of websites going offline for almost an hour on Tuesday morning (including the FT) https://t.co/fXgqIudNYR

— Tony Tassell (@TonyTassell) June 8, 2021