Is Twitter Down? Social Media Site Experiencing 'Something Technically Wrong'

RTSJGEW — People holding mobile phones are silhouetted against a backdrop projected with the Twitter logo in this illustration picture taken in Warsaw, Poland on Sept. 27, 2013. Reuters

UPDATE: 2:25 p.m. EDT — It's back up. Nobody panic.

Maybe Twitter was trying to cope with recently being outpaced by Pokemon Go, the free app that lets you imitate Ash Ketchum IRL. Pokemon Go passed the social site in daily active users earlier this month, TechCrunch reported.

In any case, people's Thursday routines were seriously disrupted by the outage. What better to do when Twitter goes down than to tweet about Twitter when Twitter comes back? Here's a selection of memes that shows our collective dependence on the service:

* taps on the screen *

Hello? Twitter? Are you down?! pic.twitter.com/vJrY8UPaEi
— Good Morning America (@GMA) July 28, 2016

Twitter was down for a sec and I couldn't even tweet that Twitter was down, I might have a problem
— Kelsey L. Hayes (@kelseylh) July 28, 2016

Twitter briefly went down and I just pic.twitter.com/XP5B4RrFFW
— Leanne (@SimGuruPanda) July 28, 2016

My twitter went down for like, 10 minutes so I guess I know what it's like to be dead now.
— FunWithKris&Brit (@KrisnBrit) July 28, 2016

Original story:

How are people going to read your #ThursdayThoughts? The social media service Twitter appeared to be down Thursday afternoon just after 2 p.m. EDT. Trying to access the desktop site showed an error message reading, "Something is technically wrong."

"Thanks for noticing — we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon," the site read.

Downrightnow.com, which tracks a variety of websites, showed that Twitter was experiencing a "likely service disruption." No other details were immediately available. Hang tight and... go on Facebook, I guess?

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