U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan briefly crashed Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, on Tuesday night, as millions in the country discussed and debated her Asia trip.
The microblogging platform apologized for a half-hour outage of its mobile app in the period immediately before Pelosi’s landing, at 10:40 p.m. on Tuesday, when countless messages tracking her plane flooded social media.
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