Twitter Ruined Everyone’s Friday Afternoon

For 10 minutes, at least

(Screenshot: Twitter)
(Screenshot: Twitter)

Of course this holiday weekend couldn’t start off easily.

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At around 3:30 PM on Friday, Twitter went down, squashing the hopes of anyone who wanted to tweet about their #NewYorkValues.

Early Twitter users may be nostalgic for the “fail whale,” which has been replaced by a futuristic robot missing a hand.

The failure, however, was short lived. As soon as the site was back up, Twitter users had a place to complain about not being able to use Twitter:

https://twitter.com/MostLikelyDom/status/688102642522849280

https://twitter.com/SunnySugglet/status/688102633089843201

https://twitter.com/kerihw/status/688102554329157636

https://twitter.com/marvelvictim/status/688102733350436864

It’s a good thing that Twitter didn’t crash last weekend—where else would the media have gone to make jokes about Sean Penn?

Twitter Ruined Everyone’s Friday Afternoon