Twitter was broken, and it was great

For a brief, blissful period of time, Twitter was in the midst of an outage for its most basic function: sending your thoughts into the ether via tweeting. On DownDetector, the service showed a spike in problems over the last hour or so. Tweets sent bounced right back; retweets are also limited.

But there was still a secret way to tweet: we discovered that scheduling tweets let you successfully get your message out there. (You likely needed to use Twitter’s web app — hit the three little dots underneath the tweet box — or TweetDeck.)

It’s unclear what the cause was, but a Twitter PM said the company was working on it:

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