What to do when Twitter goes down and you're left all alone

Twitter experienced one of its biggest outages in recent memory Tuesday when its app and website went down for many users.

Twitter, of course, is typically the first place people go to complain about anything Twitter-related (see Twitter hearts and that blue dot in the Moments tab. It's also the first stop when Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, Slack or any other major service has issues.

But since Twitter is the de facto social network for complaining when services go down, an extended Twitter outage presents the additional existential problem of figuring out how and where you should send your rage-filled tweets during the downtime Read more...