In case you were blissfully unaware last night, just as the entire country was preparing to tune in to the highly anticipated True Detective season finale, HBO GO decided it was a good time to crash and burn. Twitter, of course, rose to the occasion. Here are the funniest, most bitter tweets from last night’s streaming debacle:
https://gizmodo.com/true-detective-finale-crashes-hbo-go-1540176907
were you unable to steal your parents' HBO to watch a television event in real time tonight? if so, @ap would like to talk to you.
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) March 10, 2014
Is HBO GO fixed yet, I want to watch "Don't Tell Mom, The Babysitter's Dead."
— Jake Fogelnest (@jakefogelnest) March 10, 2014
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WHY WON'T ALL CONTENT BE SEAMLESSLY DELIVERED TO ME ISNTANTLY, USING MY PARENTS' PREMIUM CABLE ACCOUNTS
— Christian Brown (@DeepOmega) March 10, 2014
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BREAKING: HBO Go Crashes Due To Record Number Of People Trying To Watch John Leguizamo's 1997 Film "The Pest"
— Chase Mitchell (@ChaseMit) March 10, 2014
Time is the same HBO go joke
— Serenity Discko (@serenitydiscko) March 10, 2014
We turned on Cosmos and honestly the HBO Go loading screen was better.
— heather schmelzlen (@anchorlines) March 10, 2014
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hbo go is not working
— Jaime Starr (@PrinceTweets2U) March 10, 2014
Exclusive video from the HBO Go server maintenance room: http://t.co/Cl7DCrX5kq
— Walter Hickey (@WaltHickey) March 10, 2014
everyone in America sharing one dude's HBOGO log-in finally backfired
— Dan Amira (@DanAmira) March 10, 2014
HBOGo did not crap out on the finale of season 3 of the Wire today. It pays to wait a decade.
— Irin Carmon (@irin) March 10, 2014
If I paid for #HBOGo I'd be really pissed right about now.
— Taylor (@Mchuman) March 10, 2014
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Maybe this is just the finale and it's performance art. Time is a spinning Loading… circle
— kyle wagner (@kylenw) March 10, 2014
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.@HBOGO: "Sorry, we're so popular."
— Stacy Lambe (@sllambe) March 10, 2014
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I saw from Episode One that HBO GO crashing was the yellow king you fools
— Ankler Rushfield (@richardrushfield) March 10, 2014