Given that today was the White House's "Social Media Summit", no doubt there will be a few conspiracies floated. I'm betting "Twitter wanted to block out all the criticism coming form the summit!" will be a popular one.

I've got a couple conspiracy theories at the moment:

1. It's a deployment of some infrastructure change the government got the big tech companies to sign onto.

2. It's a "shot across the bow" from some external party to demonstrate their control over major infrastructure.

2.a. Also could have been a mix of 1 and 2. The government orchestrated the outages in order to add fuel to the hysteria over Chinese "spy chips". However, given the story every time seems to be "Someone goofed a configuration", this theory doesn't seem to have much life left in it.

Theory: The internet is really just a series of green tubes underground and the last earthquake knocked out the primary plumber named Mario.

My theory: The internet in fact IS a big truck, and it got a flat tire.

No. The internet is in a box and Jenn broke it.

Yeah, I'm sure it's all a big coincidence. If someone was targeting them all I'm sure the effects would be entirely different.

I'm counting three in these comments so far :)

The Tron man's biker shorts ripped right in the crotch, and they're rushing to repair the split in his pants.