Early this morning, Bloomberg terminals across the globe suffered a major outage that brought the world of finance to its knees. Traders were forced to boot their backup Thomson Reuters machines, dust off their phones, or sit idly by while the company sorted out its “internal network issue.” Most of all, though, the traders—and those who report on them—flocked to Twitter to rant.
Fortune dug through the highlights so you don’t have to. Here are the best tweets, for your amusement, in no particular order:
Right now there's a very sad Bloomberg algo that wants to send out a *BLOOMBERG DOWN GLOBALLY* flash headline, but just can't get the irony
— 🇺🇦 Owen Callan 🇺🇦 (@OwenCallan) April 17, 2015
Bloomberg being down has finally made me understand how teenagers feel when Facebook crashes.
— Philip O'Sullivan (@pdosullivan) April 17, 2015
https://twitter.com/RandomJog/status/588971415669440512
did someone at Bloomberg try this? #bloombergdownpic.twitter.com/Z4BvsEABBm
— Kevin Raposo (@Kevin_Raposo) April 17, 2015
If markets move, but there is no Bloomberg Machine operational to report it, does it make a sound?
— John Ashbourne (@JohnAshbourne) April 17, 2015
https://twitter.com/LadyFOHF/status/588972125937135616
#BREAKING finally found what happened at Bloomberg @markets this morning pic.twitter.com/9LppQuDuYz
— Advisory Desk (@advdesk) April 17, 2015
All makes sense now. You can take down the whole Bloomberg machine with one well-aimed 32 ounce Coke, like Luke taking down the Death Star.
— Tom Gara (@tomgara) April 17, 2015
https://twitter.com/JediEconomist/status/588979171633864704
Hope my friends @thomsonreuters are speaking with clients about op risk of relying on one supplier. Is #eikonup trending? #bloombergdown
— Neil Morrison (@BillNeillie) April 17, 2015
Too Bloomberg To Fail https://t.co/7E8GuyLrYj
— Katie Martin (@katie_martin_fx) April 17, 2015
#bloombergdown putting batteries in my financial calculator
— Roni Green (@ronigreen) April 17, 2015
The Pope's Bloomberg terminal is down, too. https://t.co/9WFUBbCaVw
— Ivan the K™ (@IvanTheK) April 17, 2015
This is funny to me. The horror!! We had to get on the phone! http://t.co/mZJO2AlH9Bpic.twitter.com/WWzhfrLIBd
— Victoria McGrane (@vgmac) April 17, 2015
Editor’s note: The story has been updated to include additional tweets, crowdsourced from Fortune readers. Send more suggestions to @rhhackett or @FortuneMagazine on Twitter.
For more on the Bloomberg terminal outage, read Fortune’s recap here and the latest update here. And for an incredible feature about Bloomberg from the magazine a couple years ago, read this.
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