Twitter #BeAVoter campaign experienced a brief but hilarious bug

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Hey Twitter voters, find a time machine. 

Twitter launched additional features for its #BeAVoter election campaign on Thursday. But even the best laid plans don’t always go off without a hitch.

One of the new features was a countdown to the election, along with a link to resources on where to vote.

But the countdown feature caused a bit of hilarious confusion. Some Twitter users reported that Twitter was reminding them to vote — in negative 17,819 days.

Twitter said that the wonky countdown came from a bug that was active for less than 5 minutes after the launch of the new features. It added that any user who received the time-warping message will be shown an accurate one.

But apparently 5 minutes was plenty of time for the message to spread among Twitter’s 300 million active users. 

Oh, and just a reminder: election day in the U.S. is Tuesday, Nov. 6. You might want to check out Twitter’s #BeAVoter campaign, and, ya know, cast that ballot. 

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