Yesterday, if you were searching for a short-form, self-indulgent way to describe what you had for breakfast, you were shit out of luck. Basically, the Internet’s most popular social networking sites broke. Web sites that were down yesterday included:

Facebook, Livejournal, YouTube, Google, and the one that got the most spotlight, Twitter. (Gizmodo and Xbox Live were also down for those that are all about being thorough.) What’s missing?

MySpace.

Reuter’s blogger Alexei Oreskovic called the fact that the L.A. based social networking site was left out of the attacks a “stinging slap in the face.”

He continued, “Perhaps the malefactors didn’t deem MySpace a target worthy of attention. MySpace’s popularity has waned at a time when Facebook and Twitter have experienced massive user growth.”

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