Britain's Queen Elizabeth II dies and Twitter "crumbles"

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The Queen's death was so popular on social media that Twitter was disrupted in many countries, including the United States.

Six minutes after Buckingham Palace announced the Queen's death, thousands of Twitter users reported interruptions at 01:36 in the eastern United States, according to Downdetector, which tracks the outages.

Several users said they received the following message: "the tweet cannot be loaded now, please try to refresh it" and "the tweet cannot be retrieved at this time". There have been interruptions to varying degrees in the United States, Britain, Canada and Japan.

▲ tweets cannot be loaded now

▲ cannot retrieve tweets

As of press time, the official Twitter account and support department have not responded to the interruption.

Temporary interruptions were common in the early days of Twitter, but as the platform developed, the problem became more and more rare. Several users were shocked by this temporary situation.