Grindr went offline last night, prompting an international outcry.
Users in the U.S., Europe, and Australia flew into a panic last night when the hookup app suffered a global outage around 11 PM.
Naturally, they took to Twitter to voice their outage.
Gays when grindr is down pic.twitter.com/XI4Dom9sZl
— Bryan Ruiz (@ijjulian_) April 18, 2019
So… #Grindr is down but my boner isn't 🙁
— :v (@jeje96120108) April 18, 2019
Grindr is down ? pic.twitter.com/rXfJgHf82K
— Fanch Kerg*at (@FanchKergoat) April 18, 2019
what does one do when #Grindr is down? JERK OFF!? ew what is this 1999!? do i go cruise a 7/11 or something!? bhaha
— richerd torrez (@RicherdTorrez) April 18, 2019
I FINALLY get a cute guy to hit me up on Grindr. Meaning, he saw my face, didn’t block me, and thought I was cute.
Only for this bitch to be down. My luck is amazing. ???? pic.twitter.com/O7FkzPXzj5
— Veridis Quo. (@omgTDUBB) April 18, 2019
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Thankfully, the outage was short and the app was back up and running within an hour or so. Although it’s always sad to think about how many potential marriages were thwarted as a result of the blackout.
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Chrisk
This is just terrible. Oh wait. I haven’t been on since forever. I don’t give a shit. Nevermind.
Mack
Guess it delayed some twink’s hookup for an hour. People need to get a life and put down the phone.
Kangol
Guess you better brush up on those old-fashioned cruising skills in case this happens again, Grindr-ets.
Jack Meoff
People could always just get their hand off it and read a book instead. The world might be a better place for it.