【bioware, eroticism and modernity】

X,bioware, eroticism and modernity or the site formerly known as Twitter, broke in a novel way on Wednesday. As of about 2 p.m. ET on Dec. 13, clicking any link at all on X led to an error page.

A YouTube link, an article, anything — try to click out and you get a cutesy error page from X.

The error read, alongside an image of an overturned ice cream cone:

"This page is down

I scream. You scream. We all scream... for us to fix this page. We’ll stop making jokes and get things up and running soon."

This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.

This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.

This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.

After seeing a few posts about the issue, I tried a few different links on both my laptop and phone. And I got the same error message no matter what.

The issue persisted for at least a half an hour and had not been rectified by about 2:15 p.m. eastern time.

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