Nobel to OPCW on Twitter: Where are you guys?

When the Nobel Peace Prize committee couldn't reach the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons by phone, it turned to a newer means of communication: Twitter.

The committee tweeted twice on Friday morning, first with a message to OPCW to contact its office and then with a general that effectively said, "Are you out there?"

Twitter users found the interaction amusing and exasperating.

--@radhikajones: "Imagining current convo between @Nobelprize_org and @OPCW: Hey, follow me back so I can DM you."

--@misswilson "Life in 2013, everybody"

--M_C_Klein "Is this the way things are done now?"

--@DrDSchwartz "Who ordered a @dominos Pizza?"

Difficulty reaching winners by phone has been a pattern throughout this year's awarding of the Nobel prizes, including a delay reaching literature winner Alice Munro, a Canadian, as well as physics prize winner Peter Higgs, thought to be somewhere in Scotland.