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The NFL's negotiation window—formerly known as the legal tampering window— opened on Monday at 12:00 p.m., which allowed teams and agents of players to talk through and agree to contracts ahead of free agency officially opening on Wednesday.
Generally, news of said agreements is broken by NFL reporters through posts on the X (formerly Twitter) app. Unfortunately, the social network dubbed "the everything app" glitched out just prior to noontime.
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The nearly two-hour on-and-off outage led to plenty of priceless reactions:
Twitter servers 2 hours before NFL free agency starts pic.twitter.com/gwxyitcFhg
— FanDuel Sportsbook (@FDSportsbook) March 10, 2025
This is how we are gonna be breaking news today since Twitter is down: pic.twitter.com/UdXeoO4MOA
— Sleeper (@SleeperHQ) March 10, 2025
Soooooooooo. Is this thing working?
— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) March 10, 2025
Day 1 of free agency and Twitter goes down. Count your days, Elon
— T'Vondre Sweat’s Stiff Arm (@traviebird00) March 10, 2025
Twitter not working on the day Free Agency starts is just not ideal…
— Zach Bollinger (@zachbollinger18) March 10, 2025
“Man, if you thought we were important, wait until Twitter goes down. The only way to get this kind of information is right here on NFL Network…forget about Twitter. Just watch TV” – Ian Rapoport pic.twitter.com/cWzDvMlw6P
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) March 10, 2025
We can’t be having Twitter/X issues on NFL Free Agency Monday 👎
— Ross Tucker (@RossTuckerNFL) March 10, 2025
Twitter is down. Perfect.
— JosinaAnderson (@JosinaAnderson) March 10, 2025
Bad day for this app to be so …. Inefficient.
— John Keim (@john_keim) March 10, 2025
The start of NFL free agency is quite possibly the worst time for this app to break 😭
— Ross Pins (@chisportsross) March 10, 2025
Luckily for fans, Twitter has since returned—though plenty of news was first reported on the rival social media app BlueSky.
Not very efficient, if you ask me.
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Mike Kadlick is a contributor to the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. Before joining SI in November 2024, he covered the New England Patriots for WEEI sports radio in Boston and continues to do so for CLNS Media. He has a master's in public relations from Boston University. Kadlick is also an avid runner and a proud lover of all things pizza.