Amazon website at 3:29 pm
The Amazon website went down this afternoon, but is since fixed.
For around twenty minutes, typing in "Amazon.com" resulted in a message that said: "Oops! We're very sorry, but we're having trouble doing what you just asked us to do. Please give us another chance--click the Back button on your browser and try your request again. Or start from the beginning on our homepage." Eventually, giving the site a second chance worked.
However, Amazon was kind of well-prepared, from a graphics persective. An image that illustrated the service failure message featured three titles Oops (a picture book), I'm Sorry...My Bad! (also a picture book) and Grave Mistake (which looks like a YA book).
Although the Twitter reaction was not nearly as frenzied as last Wednesday when the Times site was down, there was some sarcastic tweets informing the Amazon-less that they could buy books from independent bookstores.
https://twitter.com/melvillehouse/status/369537979699585026
https://twitter.com/sarahw/status/369541657894473729
There were definitely some Washington Post jokes to be made. But we'll leave that for Twitter.