We got a breaking news bulletin a little while ago about about a strong earthquake in the Los Angeles area. My first instinct was to check the Los Angeles Times Web site to get more detailed info quickly, but it seems maybe the earthquake knocked them off line. My second route? Twitter, the social-networking, micro-blogging site that allows users to send updates (known as tweets) of up to 140 characters in length.
There, people were talking about the quake and others, farther away, were hoping everyone in California was OK.
And now the Times is back in business.
Alas! That's where my computer illiteracy is really showing. "tweets"
"Twitters" "Times". Can cyberspace be "knocked off" by an earthquake?
Scotty beam me up!