When Slack goes dark, Twitter erupts: ‘I talked to my colleagues … in the face’

It was not a drill.

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Slack, the popular communication app used by businesses — and newsrooms — around the world, experienced technical difficulties Wednesday morning.

According to a Tweet from Slack, as of 11:49 a.m. CDT, the platform was fixed.

Slack’s website says millions of people around the world use the tool to connect their teams. And best believe those millions of people noticed, panicked and took to Twitter with their grievances.

Because Slack was down in our own newsroom — leaving us in a state of despair with nothing but free time on our hands (joking) — we rounded up some of the internet’s best reactions to the outage.