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Twitter had a major service outage, and users reacted hilariously to being without their favorite social media platform.
What’s Going On With Twitter?
If you just opened up Twitter right now, you can’t tell that it suffered another service outage. For about 40 minutes early Thursday morning (Jul.14).
Things went south for the platform at about 8:05 am ET when users began complaining about receiving “over capacity” and “this page is down” messages. Per The Verge, issues plagued users trying to tweet using the mobile app, web client, or even TweetDeck.
DownDetector received thousands of reports about Twitter at the time, but when you checked Twitter’s status page, “all systems operational.” Users noted that Twitter.com loaded as normal, but many people still couldn’t log in or see tweets. The social media platform slowly started acting normal around 8:40 am ET, with many noting they were able to tweet and use the service as normal.
The company finally acknowledged at 9:10 am ET that something was wrong, tweeting, “we’re working to get it back up and running for everyone.” By 12:37 pm ET, Twitter said it reached a full resolution blaming an “unspecified problem with internal systems” as the culprit.
And we’re back! We had some trouble with our internal systems that impacted many of you globally. Twitter should be up and running as expected — sorry for the interruption.
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 14, 2022
The Reactions Are Always Hilarious
This latest outage is the first major one for the social media platform since suffering a series of problems back in February, where users experienced a “technical bug that was preventing timelines from loading and Tweets from posting.”
With any service outage on the social media platform comes the reactions from users not being able to get their tweets off.
“where do i complain about twitter being down when twitter is down!? #twitterdown,” one person tweeted.
where do i complain about twitter being down when twitter is down!? #twitterdown pic.twitter.com/r57IzZEiEn
— Seddera Side (@sedderaside) July 14, 2022
Of course, you can always return to the barren wasteland that is Facebook, where memes go to die to pass the time.
Me scrolling through Facebook while Twitter was down pic.twitter.com/YD9DheFQmw
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) July 14, 2022
These issues are not a good look for the platform that is currently suing the pants off of Elon Musk for trying to back out of the $44 billion agreement to purchase the company Jack used to own.
You can peep more reactions in the gallery below.
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1. LOL
Me apologizing to my internet after blaming it for twitter being down: pic.twitter.com/6tuKOWWPjD
— Hemant (@Sportscasmm) July 14, 2022
2. Dark times
Twitter being down got it feeling like 09 pic.twitter.com/XDvXQ57bXm
— AuxGod (@AuxGod_) July 14, 2022
3. The accuracy
me logging onto twitter to draft a tweet about twitter being down: pic.twitter.com/ek2jPJL8dG
— Family Guy (@FamilyGuyonFOX) July 14, 2022
4.
me running to tweet "twitter is down" but then i realise twitter is down. pic.twitter.com/5ICIThFrBe
— 니코니 (@thinkingwinter) July 14, 2022
5.
Twitter watching me search “ is Twitter down ” in the search bar #TwitterDown
pic.twitter.com/nA4kGRJ5Lx
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(@_ItsMeBB_) July 14, 2022
6.
Me coming back onto Twitter after thinking I’d been banned #TwitterDown pic.twitter.com/vqYnJYmSyB
— » (@thfckizza) July 14, 2022
7.
While Twitter was down I just shared my random thoughts with my coworkers so now I have a meeting with HR later this week.
— MonsterKing (@CerromeRussell) July 14, 2022
8.
why did twitter randomly go down pic.twitter.com/5qSJnwyVCR
— ʍoo ʍoo.
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