Twitter went down for users across the globe for about an hour on Thursday. As Cnet reports, many were confronted with a landing page that read, “Something is technically wrong” whenever they tried to log in during the early afternoon (on the United States east coast, that is). Their official account cheekily posted “miss us?” as services gradually returned to normal, but not before said outage had become a trending topic on Google and other social media platforms.
https://twitter.com/Twitter/status/1149407582488059909
As for what caused the outage precisely, Twitter has yet to officially divulge this information — most likely because their engineers are still trying to figure this out. Even so, that didn’t stop users (who had been forced to go outside and breathe unfiltered air for an hour) from commenting on the sudden shutdown at length. Many of the usual jokes and comments made the rounds, as did a few new quips from the platform’s more prominent users.
you don't want to know what it cost to bring twitter back https://t.co/1sOrurXriU pic.twitter.com/4ZfTMVpHQO
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) July 11, 2019
https://twitter.com/josephwicking/status/1149407459070660608
damn it, I was just about to click send pic.twitter.com/VkzMISGk3m
— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) July 11, 2019
https://twitter.com/darth/status/1149407461431840769
https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1149405937935048704
Chrissy Teigen, who admitted that she “[has] a real problem,” poked fun at herself once things returned to normal.
I posted a tweet to instagram. I have a real problem. that felt like 12 hours.
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) July 11, 2019
I bought 5 ugly hats I don't want while twitter was down
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) July 11, 2019
But the real fun was the collective realization that, right around the time that Twitter’s global outage began, President Donald Trump’s controversial “Social Media Summit” at the White House was underway. So, yeah… many are already ironically (and seriously) stoking the conspiracy theory fires.
https://twitter.com/JonLemire/status/1149404945915031553
gotta be pure coincidence that twitter went down right as the president's anti-twitter "social media summit" was starting
— Garrett Martin (@grmartin) July 11, 2019
https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1149406390307344384
The President has a ‘Social Media Summit’ and Twitter goes down….?
— James Longman (@JamesAALongman) July 11, 2019
We are living in the worst of the worst timelines.