Clever Twitter jokes only hid the pains of rejection on Thursday morning as thousands tried unsuccessfully to log into Ticketmaster and buy Adele passes for her American Airlines Center concerts next November in Dallas.
One particular tweet said it all: "Hello from the outside/I must have tried a thousand times. #adeletickets."
That hashtag trended nationwide on Thursday as fans from Dallas and other cities encountered a range of technical Ticketmaster issues that shut down their repeated attempts.
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