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020 Archivesreveal of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalkerliterally broke the internet.

About one or two minutes after the first trailer for Star Wars Episode IXhit the internet, Twitter went down, giving desktop users who tried to use the site at all an error page. On mobile, the app was not updating at all for roughly one minute.

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We reached out to Twitter for comment and the company did not immediately respond to our question about why Twitter went down, so we don't know for sure if Star Wars did it, but it would be quite the coincidence if a major traffic increase from Star Wars fans didn't cause the problem.

After Twitter was back in action, the flood of Star Wars tweets were pouring in.

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People adored the trailer shown at the Star Wars Celebration and fans were happy to see some of their favorite characters back in action after a year and a half of silence.

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People loved the new droid D-O that made its debut on-stage, obviously, and the emotions that ran through the trailer were palpable.

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Fans particularly took to the mysterious laugh at the end of the trailer, which seems to have emanated form none other than Palpatine, seemingly confirmed by the actor behind the legendary villain Ian McDiarmid coming out to tell everyone to play the trailer again.

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The Rise of Skywalkermarks the end of the Skywalker saga, and many fans are paying tribute by looking back at the rest of the series.

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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalkerwill land in theaters Dec. 20.

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