
Of course this holiday weekend couldn’t start off easily.
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Early Twitter users may be nostalgic for the “fail whale,” which has been replaced by a futuristic robot missing a hand.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
I'm always so unsure where to run for help when Twitter goes down
— Chris Dixon (@chrismd10) January 15, 2016
https://twitter.com/marvelvictim/status/688102733350436864
you know when Twitter breaks down because everyone freaks out because they don't know what to do with their life
— 🌹Farha (@beauty_by_farha) January 15, 2016
Everyone when Twitter was down pic.twitter.com/hqQl5wFLki
— Katie (@katie_uske) January 15, 2016
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?