Jobs announced that he is stepping down and Tim Cook, Apple's chief operating officer, was chosen to take the helm. That was all it took to light up sites like , and + with people posting well-wishes for Jobs and venting their worries about what will happen to without Jobs at the reins.

For a while last night, #stevejobs and #CEO of Apple were trending topics on .

"The beauty of creating something bigger than yourself is that it'll live on without you. so steve jobs resigns as ceo. his ideas continue," tweeted emilychang. And n_adam_stanley tweeted about the number of changes hitting the tech sector, saying, "What would you say if last week, someone had said that in 10 days Google would buy Motorola, webOS would be gone & Steve Jobs would retire?"

Twitter wasn't the only feeling the weight of Steve Jobs-related traffic.

On , Wylie Wong posted, "And today, Silicon Valley gets it's own earthquake. Ouch." Sandra Gittlen noted, "I really hope Steve Jobs has squirreled away ideas in a vault -- much like great musicians store songs -- for later release. So many innovations left in that amazing 'magical' brain of his."