Apparently, Kobe Bryant and Stephen Curry broke Twitter

It’s one of those moments when Twitter gets overloaded and people can’t access the social media service. Just when fans wanted to tweet about Kobe Bryant’s last game and the Golden State Warrriors’ quest to break the single season record of 72 wins, Twitter went down. The timing was impeccable. It occurred right when Bryant scored the first of his 60 points in his final game.

And the system overloaded to the point where Twitter had to acknowledge it was having problems and the Lakers Twitter account went down for a period of time:

The outage monitoring service Down Detector had more than 2,700 complaints about Twitter going down at 10:48 ET on Wednesday:

And reaction to the outage was swift. Well, swift for an outage.

#MambaDay: Twitter goes down during Kobe Bryant's final game https://t.co/s6Yb1uq99n pic.twitter.com/tDC19x9yTb

— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) April 14, 2016

We'll all remember where we were the night Kobe broke Twitter. #MambaDay #KB20 #ThankYouKobe @Lakers @kobebryant

— Jason Ender (@jason_ender1) April 14, 2016

Retweeted LOONEY! (@LooneyonFox):

The Power of Kobe. He broke Twitter and the LA Freeways were EMPTY!#MambaDay… https://t.co/rPBDlexncs

— Olden Polynice (@OldenPolynice1) April 14, 2016

Kobe & Steph Curry broke Twitter tonight in the best ways possible. Always grind & the shine will come in due time

— Exhale (@Exhale_OFFICIAL) April 14, 2016

https://twitter.com/erikmal/status/720448934531964932

The Lakers had to take drastic measures by tweeting from an alternate account:

https://twitter.com/lakersdigital/status/720466844457508864

But everything was finally resolved soon afterwards and people went back to tweeting. Twitter finally gave the all clear after the games had ended.

The issue has now been resolved, thank you for your patience. https://t.co/SdU8w4qCbU

— Support (@Support) April 14, 2016

Everyone was relieved and Twitter went back to normal. It goes to show that when there’s a big event, people can still take down Twitter at a moment’s notice.

[SF Gate/ESPN.com]