Netizens arriving late to the scene opened Weibo only to be met with a blank page.
Not to mention the trending searches, even personal homepages were all garbled.
They had no idea what had happened.
The programmers at Weibo were also in despair.
He had worked no overtime that day and just left work at six o'clock, happy to head home for a hot shower, when he ran into this mess.
The last time something like this happened was when two celebrities got married and crashed Weibo's servers without a second thought over the weekend.
After that, they reinforced the servers, thinking that no matter what sensational news came, it surely wouldn't happen again.
But it did happen again.
This time, the crash was even worse than the last.
The programmer had no choice but to return to the office, working overtime with his colleagues to fix the servers.
Forty minutes later, Weibo's page was finally back to normal.
