Social Media

Why is RIP Twitter trending?

By Tanvi Sabharwal

A norm of relentlessly being connected with the world has arisen in the past decade with apps like WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook and even Reddit, each promoting its billions of users to express their every thought online, yet not being able to handle the overload of their servers. We’ve seen multiple apps crash or not respond if even for a few minutes, causing users to panic and take to Twitter to express the same.

However, this time it was Twitter that was down earlier today.

The micro-blogging app appeared to be glitching causing problems for several users, promoting them to take to Twitter to blog about the problem. The issues range from search terms and tweets that fail to load, retrieving tweets and other content and especially, refreshing the homepage.

Having risen in ranks as one of the most reliable communication apps around, among competitors like Facebook and WhatsApp, by having an unbeatable record of never being down, Twitter surprised all its users by having logout errors and other failures on Saturday.

Users, who had previously used the app to express concerns or reaffirm their suspicions of other apps being down, found they could not actually blog about Twitter on Twitter, leaving us all with the question, who should we turn to?

https://twitter.com/ArtistAJ17/status/1383490315349233666

https://twitter.com/takomakiii/status/1383489381382574089

https://twitter.com/BrBaStan/status/1383478485318914053

https://twitter.com/thepoptartking4/status/1383487792546652168

Tags: Twitter Inc Twitter RIP

Tanvi Sabharwal

Tanvi Sabharwal is a graduate in Economics with experience in marketing and strategy. A media enthusiast, she has a deep-rooted interest in social policy and development. Tanvi is currently working as a Business and Current Affairs reporter at USAnewshour.com and can be reached at tanvi.sabharwal21@gmail.com