Can you follow a cover on Twitter? Hollywood Reporter says:
Twitter did not explode in disbelief. Some people who use Twitter exploded in disbelief. There was no comment from the code that comprises Twitter, or the servers that house the code. As for the cover itself: yeah, it's creepy. It looks like Diana was disinterred, brought to life with horse stimulants and hosed down with cosmetics. The cover captures the exact moment someone threw a manhole cover on its unholy head.
Everyone's talking about how disrespectful this is, even though they did the same thing to lesser saints such as Elvis, JFK, and Marilyn. The real problem is Tina Brown's story, a wistful what-if that reaches new heights in British ninny-worship:
And then said something terribly clever and wise, like "it must have been so hard for you when the Soviet Union broke up. Did you have to change all the stationery and bedsheet monograms?
The iPhone photo is horrible, too.