Everyone Panic (Or Not) Twitter Is Down (And Back Up, And Down)

In a move that has shocked everyone following #sorryjustinweloveyou the number one platform for both @-ing people you don’t know about a thing they said you don’t like and revealing horrific human right abuses (how does it do both) is down. Right this second. It might be back up again by the time you read this, though.

There’s no word on why it’s happened, but the consensuses in the Gizmodo Australia office is that we miss the “Fail Whale”. Remember that guy?

“Fail Robot” just doesn’t cut it for emergencies such as this. I mean, seriously.



So how have you guys been dealing with the great Twitter outage of August 2016? Any stories to pass on to your grandkids? Let us know in the comments!


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