WHAT'S AMAZON'S TIME WORTH? "You expect it to happen to fund-strapped start-ups such as Twitter. But Amazon? The e-commerce site went down this afternoon around 1:30 EDT and stayed down for at least an hour. Attempts to access Amazon.com were met with the following message: 'Http/1.1 Service Unavailable.' It's hard to know exactly how many dollars a minute Amazon loses in sales for every moment its site is down, but simple math pegs it at about $1.8 million an hour …"

Jun 9, 2008 · posted by Cord Jefferson, MollyGood · Link · 2 Responses
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Comments (2)

No. 1 maria says:

I blame ConEd.

Posted: Jun 9, 2008 at 12:09 pm
No. 2 Keeblerkahn says:

You can bet there were some people there wetting their underoos until they got it back up.

Posted: Jun 9, 2008 at 2:27 pm
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