The New York Stock Exchange reopened trading at 3:10 today, after being shut down for over three hours because of a “technical issue.” The snafu occurred after a faulty software update that resulted in connectivity issues.
There were no signs of malicious activity, but conspiracy theories about hacking still ran rampant, especially because United Airlines and the Wall Street Journal also experienced outages today.
And of course the conspiracy theorists (and everyone else who wanted to vent about the stock market) took to everyone’s favorite sounding board: Twitter.
Here, 10 of our favorite #NYSE tweets:
“Glitch better have my money.” #NYSE #NYSEdown
— Zack Massey (@zackmassey) July 8, 2015
https://twitter.com/staypuft/status/618808119695544321
https://twitter.com/Neil_Irwin/status/618810103211388929
Looks like I picked the wrong day to take a United flight to the NYSE for a story on http://t.co/V0bk9s9ZgC
— Mark Gongloff (@markgongloff) July 8, 2015
If you’re a financial trader who flies United and loyally reads the WSJ…what a day you’re having right now.
— Matt Viser (@mviser) July 8, 2015
https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/618815870761074688
Q1 Did you cause the NYSE to crash? MT @voxdotcom: 9 questions about the Illuminati you were too afraid to ask pic.twitter.com/UsuXSohg7A
— nilgirian𝕏 (@nilgirian) July 8, 2015
https://twitter.com/nickbilton/status/618821153633669120
Is NYSE waiting on the tech line for help in rebooting trading system? "Your call is important to us…You are next in line…"
— Steve Liesman (@steveliesman) July 8, 2015
#NYSE trading has halted, @NYSE claims that it's not the result of a cyber attack. pic.twitter.com/yOazgGJ7mn
— WNYC 🎙 (@WNYC) July 8, 2015
Thank God for Twitter, otherwise journalists would have nothing to do during a financial crisis.
