Bloomberg LP experienced a "significant" unexplained outage of its Bloomberg Terminals on Friday.
The outage happened early this morning, so it mostly impacted folks in Europe.
A Bloomberg Terminal is a really high speed computer created for financial professionals so they can message other users, obtain real-time market data, news, and stock quotes among many other functions.
They're pretty much ubiquitous on Wall Street, and a subscription for one costs about $20,000 per year. Wall Street banks and hedge funds pay Bloomberg LP millions of dollars a year to buy terminal accounts for their employees.
So what did Bloomberg terminals users do when their most crucial tool went down? They had some fun, of course!.
Here's a round up of some of our favorite Tweets:
Even the best networks do go down..!! #bloombergdown pic.twitter.com/YQ5rzL2iS3
- vByron (@vByronM) April 17, 2015Even my Bloomberg mini football is down...#bloombergdown pic.twitter.com/wE8bMjUNtP
- Golden Sacks (@GoldenSacks) April 17, 2015Spotted in Finsbury Square #bloombergdown pic.twitter.com/yQNQaWAWot
- World First (@World_First) April 17, 2015Oxygen! I need oxygen! #bloombergdown pic.twitter.com/mIYOA7xMAl
- Ian Shepherdson (@IanShepherdson) April 17, 2015Going for a long lunch, see you on Monday. #bloombergdown
- Ron Pupkin (@RonPupkin) April 17, 2015This means "early lunch" too.
#bloombergdown betyder tidlig frokost i @saxobank - men #saxotrader kører stadig og alle kunder kan handle pic.twitter.com/QHXMTkk2Jk
- Cathrine Kier (@CathKier) April 17, 2015#bloombergdown lets go for a #Brunch, C u on Monday .
- walid sassia (@walidsassia) April 17, 2015
LIVE WEBCAM: Reuters officehttps://t.co/ozRTT8v7Ml#BloombergDown
- Yoda (@JediEconomist) April 17, 2015That #bloombergdown hashtag inspired a lot of people. Some traders/advisors could work as comedians during their spare time.
- Pablo J. Gutierrez (@PabloJGF) April 17, 2015Hope my friends @thomsonreuters are speaking with clients about op risk of relying on one supplier. Is #eikonup trending? #bloombergdown
- Neil Morrison (@BillNeillie) April 17, 2015Traders flock to all the pubs in the square mile... Well at least it's Friday #bloombergdown
- Sam Lush (@samlush) April 17, 2015Time for a power nap #bloombergdown
- Brandon and Lloyd (@BrandonandLloyd) April 17, 2015Time for a power nap #bloombergdown
- Brandon and Lloyd (@BrandonandLloyd) April 17, 2015Millions of traders are looking out the window for the first time in years. #BloombergDown
- Lou Whiteman (@louwhiteman) April 17, 2015What time does the pub open? #Bloombergdown
- Alex Harris (@AlexDHarris) April 17, 2015