intertwingly

Clay Shirky: ...Twenty minutes later, one person stands up and gets their coat, and what happens? Suddenly everyone is getting their coats on, all at the same time. Which means that everyone had decided that the party was not for them, and no one had done anything about it, until finally this triggering event let the air out of the group, and everyone kind of felt okay about leaving.  This effect is so steady it's sometimes called the paradox of groups

One such event seems to have occurred over the past 48 hours.