TWO FOR ONE: Post fronts Twitter & Facebook crashes

Twitter and Facebook were both hit with denial-of-service (DOS) attacks on Thursday, shutting them down for a few hours. Sure enough, for the Washington Post, it was front page news on Friday.

In the piece, Style section scribe Monica Hesse went for snark:

For several hours, millions of users were catapulted back to the dark, informationless days of 2003, before such pertinent information as what Ashton Kutcher had for a snack became readily available, before it was possible for people to take a simple quiz to learn which "Twilight" character or dog breed they were most like.

Well, that's sure meta: A front-page article making the case for its own irrelevance. What will be next?!

This was the Post's thirteenth front-page article significantly focused on Facebook in just under three years. Here's the list:
Sept 2006, Oct 2006, Feb 2007, Nov 2007, March 2008, April 2008, May 2008, June 2008, July 2008, Sept 2008, March 2009, April 2009, Aug 2009.

(note: There was another one back in March that ran on the front page only in one edition. Nexis says the article, which ran inside on a Saturday, was on Sunday's front page in the Bulldog edition -- the first edition).

How about for Twitter? Just the second.
Aug 2009, Aug 2009.
(Those were five days apart).