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Want to help Twitter shuffle off this mortal coil? Tweet during the World Cup games. [1]

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Date: 2022-11-19

According to this article from the Guardian, Twitter has a 50% chance of a major crash during the World Cup. Twitter previously crashed during the 2010 World Cup as a major play will prompt fans from around the world to all simultaneously tweet “did you see that?” In 2014, Twitter launched a major initiative several weeks before the World Cup to prepare for outages which ended up helping the platform stay online.

Recently, our current stoned out Bond-villain decided it would be a great idea to fire half of the employees at twitter and chase off as many others as he could. Needless to say, (according to the Guardian article) there has been very little preparations for this current World Cup and the former insider who would normally be troubleshooting possible problems, gives the system a 50% chance of a major outage. Considering in 2010 Twitter had a full set of engineers and the platform still went down, what’s going to happen when they have a quarter of the normal staff and none of the executives?

Let’s not wonder! Let’s help it along! Here’s the Guardian’s table of standings and game times. But you can help even if you are not interested in watching the games. Just tweet as often as possible for the 2 hours after each game start. Increased load is best during the big plays, but continuous high load can help to stress test the spoiled man-child’s new toy.

So tweet as much as possible during the two hours following these game starts:

Sunday Nov 20: 11 AM EST

Monday Nov 21: 8 AM EST

Monday Nov 21: 11 AM EST

Monday Nov 21: 2 PM EST

If we’re going to do it, either the starting game or the trio of games on Monday should be primetime to crash it. If not then, we might need to try again for the final game.

So spread the word far and wide. While getting #crashtwitter to trend on Twitter would be hilarious, they might get the ban hammer out. So spread it everywhere but Twitter. Then on Sunday and Monday, be sure to time your normal Twitter usage to coincide with the times above. And just do your best to join in conversations you might not normally join in. Heck, start some flame wars. Jump on a Republican list and let them know they have the brains of nematodes. That will also start a spike of people looking up what a nematode is. Not sure if that will help crash Twitter, but we can at least educate a few people during our sowing of chaos. Good luck! Let’s make the big Twit pay for his idiocy!

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