Fans Melt Down as Star Wars Breaks The Internet
By Ani Bundel
Last night was a huge night in the Star Wars universe, as the final trailer for The Force Awakens dropped in the middle of Monday Night Football, while tickets went on sale for Episode VII’s opening weekend. It was a test of the emergency backup server system for all ticket seller and movie theater websites. And from the looks of things on Twitter, all of them failed.
Agreed!
I AM TRYING TO GET @AMCTHEATERS TO LOAD ON THREE SEPARATE DEVICES. HELP ME OBI-WAN KENOBI, YOU'RE MY ONLY HOPE. #ForceAwakens
— Allyson Punderland (@ReallyAlly) October 20, 2015
Use the force to raise the servers. The power is within you!
Arclight and Fandango right now pic.twitter.com/hquLpAmmwf
— Eric Goldman (@TheEricGoldman) October 20, 2015
Or, you know, not.
This is Fandango right now. This does not happen with other movies. #StarWars #TheForceAwakens pic.twitter.com/fVQDC5qa1Y
— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) October 20, 2015
Star Trek, eat your heart out.
Dear AMC Theaters,
— Dan Travis (@riley_daddy) October 20, 2015
What exactly did you think was going to happen tonight?
I think the operative word here is “think.”
Wow. Fandango is down, AMC Theaters is down, Alamo Drafthouse is down. Star Wars ticket demand seems…. high.
— Jeff Scott 💩 @beergeek@sfba.social (@JefeScott) October 20, 2015
For the record, I’m seeing it at the Alamo Drafthouse as well. I gave up last and bought tickets when I woke up this morning.
Ok, fine. That is funny.
But one has to admit, a little frustration makes it all the sweeter when you finally get through…
Got my @starwars tickets. #starwars #nothingbutstarwars pic.twitter.com/Rwn7KhjHz6
— Meg Marco (@meghann) October 20, 2015
And if you totally fail, there’s always eBay….
Tickets for 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' are already on eBay https://t.co/w0PQ8V1wQy pic.twitter.com/CDkcq7BLNm
— WIRED (@WIRED) October 20, 2015
Special note to the Kardiashian clan: when one talks about “breaking the internet,” it does not mean anything unless you actually cause the internet to stop working in a functional manner. I believe in this case, we can all agree that Star Wars in fact succeeded handily in that regard.
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