My friends and I began exchanging furious messages.
But on Twitter and other social media sites, thwarted shoppers posted furious messages and commiserated about the site's failure, with a few bragging that they had made it through in the brief periods that Target.com was working.
This is not the first time Ms. Huppert, an icon of Gallic severity and self-containment, has portrayed an imperious woman flashing furious messages from behind a forbidding mask.
Yet members of the public are already posting furious messages on the business' Facebook page.
She was disqualified for causing the incident and subsequently swamped with furious Twitter messages, forcing her to delete her account and reopening the debate about whether social networks are doing enough to protect users from abuse.
He can also deploy a heavy hand, Alastair Campbell-style: for example, when he speaks to journalists he regards as less "strategically important" to the Brown cause than others, he is given to sending them furious text messages or emails if he is unhappy with the end result.
The Republican barrage came fast and furious by Twitter message, news release and campaign conference call.
Those became central to Mr. Cuomo's case against Mr. Rattner; the attorney general's office was furious that the messages had not been originally provided.
Ruined Sundays, furious e-mail messages from loyal subscribers and fewer reasons for members of the Obama generation to pause an iPod and pick up a pencil.
