#TwitterDown: when a social network fails, hilarity ensues

Tuesday wasn't a good day for Twitter. For two and a half hours today, social media addicts globally had to live without their fix as Twitter saw its second outage in days.

The website said 'something is technically wrong' and the company didn't immediately provide any further details, leaving users unclear when the rantfest could return to normal. This is, in fact, Twitter's 4th outage in the past three weeks. #DefinitelyNotUsual.

The network wasn't consistently down for all users, though, which means there were mixed reports about whether the site was accessible on mobile, tablet or the laptop. Those who couldn't access it naturally did the next best thing: they went to Facebook to vent about Twitter. Those who could access it? They did the even more predictable - announce #TwitterDown on Twitter.

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Which meant irony got an extended outing as during the peak of the downtime, #TwitterDown was the top Twitter trend in most social-obsessed cities around the world.

How, you may ask? Well, these people have the same question as well:

Twitter is down, and everyone tweeting about it? HOW? #twitterdown

- Saman (@itzSaman) January 19, 2016

How's #twitterdown trending if Twitter is down ? 🤔

- Olgaaa⚡️ (@olga_persh_) January 19, 2016

The on and then off, then on and off again nature of #TwitterDown meant there was scope to provide hilarity to those who could access the site.

Some of our favourite examples from the #TwitterDown hashtag:

Twitter technicat support right now. #TwitterDown 🐺😸😹🙊 pic.twitter.com/t6IUO0OmZR

- Larry Kim (@larrykim) January 19, 2016

I love that #twitterdown is trending so people on Twitter can tell other Twitter users that Twitter is down.

- Jamie Worthington (@bigmornings) January 19, 2016

Twitter tested a 10K character tweet#twitterdown

- EnvyDaTropic (@envydatropic) January 19, 2016

The Social Does Notwork #twitterdown le film

- Bertrand Chameroy (@bchameroy) January 19, 2016

Come on. Who broke Twitter? #twitterdown pic.twitter.com/bPr3gRAGRr

- Tony Shepherd (@tonysheps) January 19, 2016

This is just getting ridiculous #TwitterDown pic.twitter.com/raWb76hqIR

- We Fix Your Adverts (@WeFixYourAdvert) January 19, 2016

Well, at least there's one upside to #twitterdown pic.twitter.com/CETmprQy3G

- Kerry W Purcell (@Kerrypurcell) January 19, 2016

With #twitterdown I spent a few hours with my family. They seem like nice people.

- Matt (@KingTweets23) January 19, 2016

On Twitter like #twitterdown pic.twitter.com/h2oZ7hfk8s

- Holly (@yllohprior) January 19, 2016

"Did you turn it off and then on again?" #twitterdown

- Richard Hay (@WinObs) January 19, 2016

Hell sure Twitter isn't working I got 0 notifications ... No wait that's normal I get 0 notifications everyday. #twitterdown

- Fatima. (@famenatioon) January 19, 2016

You know nothing, Twitter.#twitterdown

- Jon Snow (@LordSnow) January 19, 2016

I blame Twitter's newest employee. #TwitterDown pic.twitter.com/H9iaFg22z3

- Bad Father Han Solo (@BadFatherHan) January 19, 2016

"Tweets aren't loading please tap to retry"Me: *taps violently on the screen* Please. Work. I'm. In. Need. Of. Socializing#twitterdown

- Niall Horan (@explicitnouirry) January 19, 2016

That feeling when Twitter goes down #twitterdown pic.twitter.com/yP0wz2bAZm

- Wookieepedia (@WookOfficial) January 19, 2016

Things I found out today:My shoes have tornI have 243 job offers on LinkedinJustin Bieber's new album is not bad#TwitterDown

- Sagarcasm (@sagarcasm) January 19, 2016

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