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=== Taylor Swift tour pre-sale crash ===
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On November 15, 2022, the first day of pre-sale of tickets to verified fans for the US leg of [[the Eras Tour]] (2023) by American singer-songwriter [[Taylor Swift]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Clark |first=Travis |date=November 15, 2022 |title=Ticketmaster was 'experiencing technical difficulties' and outage reports surged as presale started for Taylor Swift's Eras tour |url=https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/ticketmaster-was-experiencing-technical-difficulties-and-outage-reports-surged-as-presale-started-for-taylor-swifts-eras-tour/articleshow/95539891.cms |access-date=November 15, 2022 |website=Business Insider}}</ref> Ticketmaster's official website [[Crash (computing)|crashed]] following "historically unprecedented demand with millions showing up", halting the pre-sale.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Spangler |first=Todd |date=November 15, 2022 |title=Taylor Swift Fans Crash Ticketmaster Site |url=https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/taylor-swift-crash-ticketmaster-site-1235433274/ |access-date=2022-11-15 |website=Variety}}</ref> In less than an hour of availability, the ticketing platform's servers were "unable to answer", with users "either completely logged out or in a queue 2,000-plus people strong that appeared frozen." Ticketmaster immediately published a statement saying they are working to fix the issues "as the site was unprepared to accommodate the sheer force of hundreds of thousands of Swift fans",<ref name="RS Hunger Games">{{Cite magazine |last=Jones |first=C. T. |date=2022-11-15 |title=Taylor Swift Tickets Are On Sale. Fans Say It's Their Hunger Games |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/taylor-swift-fans-battle-ticketmaster-presale-1234630928/ |access-date=2022-11-16 |magazine=Rolling Stone}}</ref> and subsequently reported that "hundreds of thousands of tickets" had already been sold and rescheduled the remaining onsales to a different time, including the Capital One onsale to November 16.<ref>{{Cite tweet |title=Ticketmaster statement |number=1592579481449168898 |access-date=2022-11-15|user=Ticketmaster}}</ref>
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