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If a large manufacturer had a fire in their facility, it would certainly be industry news. This seems like a similar situation.

• jgrahamc 14y ago
  This is more like a large manufacturer having a power outage. A fire would destroy machinery or stock. Nothing's getting lost here, something's just unavailable.
  • Karunamon 14y ago
    But a large manufacturer having a power outage, for, an hour like we are here, would cause a great deal of trouble with anything downstream of that manufacturer. And I'd be willing to bet that industry sources, mailing lists, forums, (whatever the manufacturing equivalent of HN is) would be discussing the outage, how bad it is, how this is going to completely screw up profits, how irritated they are, etc, etc.
    • tedunangst 14y ago
      You don't think GM or Ford have ever lost power for an hour? Did you ever read about it? Did the car dealerships suddenly run out of cars for one hour three weeks later? I think you are vastly overestimating the impact transient events like this have.
      • Karunamon 14y ago
        And I think you are vastly underestimating the percieved impact by the people involved, which was kind of my point. Both Twitter going down for an hour and a plant that assembles cars going down for an hour aren't that big of a deal in the huge scheme of things, but for people who are intimately connected (either work there, know someone who does, are emotionally connected to the product in some fashion, etc), it feels a lot bigger than it is.