If you look at the timestamps and the tweets, this was one of the first sites to publish the "scoop". A few others followed eg: http://news.google.com/news/sea

If you look at the timestamps and the tweets, this was one of the first sites to publish the "scoop". A few others followed eg: http://news.google.com/news/search?hl=en&q=wikipedia+is+down http://news.google.com/news/search?hl=en&q=wikipedia+is+... It's obviously been years since we've seen a story of this magnitude.