If Offended-istan was a country, half of the world would be its citizens and Twitter would be its capital (if you'll pardon the mixed metaphors). Twitter is where people go to express emotions, outrage, hurl abuse, issue threats and generally give full rein to their inner beast. So when Twitter was down for a while – as social media is apt to do sometimes – there was nowhere to express oneself in the unadorned and uninhibited ways that Twitter enables. This is what happened.
Facebook and Instagram were not. Users of those platforms either didn’t notice or were feeling some amount of schadenfreude.
Social media can go down – then we see a lateral shift to other social media platforms. People leave their favourites and explore new ones – sometimes they are pleasantly surprised.
Without Twitter people migrated to Facebook and Instagram to vent, share, complain, showoff --- or whatever it is they use social media for.
Clearly some did not think it a big deal.
Life without Twitter is difficult for some people.
For some, this was a welcome break – calm and relaxing.
Some experienced withdrawal symptoms at not being able to tweet.
…Twitter is life. Twitter-stars live life via this platform. Without it, they may as well not exist.
Many kept receiving this message – "Something went wrong. Try again". Some were puzzled, others felt bereft and a few were convinced that their Twitter account had been suspended.
Login, logout. Uninstall, reinstall.
If Twitter is down, how can the #TwitterDown hashtag be trending?
Some people decided that this was a deliberate shutdown by the government as some sort of trial.
With internet still cutoff for India’s northern most state, people in other parts of India, just a very tiny experience of what so many of our fellow citizens are currently undergoing.
….At the expense of the tweeple?
Some of the tweeple expressed heartfelt relief when Twitter was back up and hoped that something like this would not happen again.
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