Experiences point out Grindr outage in Milwaukee, the place the RNC is

Homosexual hookup app Grindr is seemingly experiencing an outage in Milwaukee, the place the Republican Nationwide Conference is happening this week.

Based on Downdetector (which is owned by Mashable’s father or mother firm, Ziff Davis), the app has been experiencing issues within the final day. Milwaukee — in addition to Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York — are all hotspots for outages as of Thursday afternoon:

Milwaukee has been residence to this yr’s RNC, which started on Monday and concludes tonight.

There have been a number of false stories of Grindr on the RNC which have gone viral on X (previously Twitter) this week, similar to a video of somebody shortly swiping via plenty of choices on the app with the caption, “Opening Grindr on the RNC.” (The video is definitely somebody opening the app at a Troye Sivan live performance.)

One other faux viral publish, courtesy of satirical account The Midway Submit, learn, “BREAKING: An executive of the gay dating app Grindr says the Republican National Convention is ‘basically Grindr’s Super Bowl.'”

There isn’t any affirmation anybody at Grindr stated this, however former Republican congressman George Santos ran with it. He shared a video on X urging these males to come back out of the closet and that they are often each homosexual and conservative.

“I’m openly gay, no qualms about it, proud conservative Republican,” Santos stated, earlier than saying that he met his husband on Grindr.

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“Grindr’s already outed you anyway,” Santos continued. An government might not have known as the RNC Grindr’s “Super Bowl,” however the outage map does not lie.

Mashable has reached out to Grindr for remark.