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Taylor Swift followers dashing to safe pre-sale tickets to her upcoming Eras tour have crashed Ticketmaster.
That is Taylor Swift’s first tour in additional than 5 years, resulting in unprecedented demand. The multi-step course of in securing an entry code for ticket gross sales has led to large outages for Ticketmaster. “We’re conscious followers could also be experiencing intermittent points with the positioning and are urgently working to resolve,” Ticketmaster told Swifties on Twitter early this morning.
The West Coast gross sales for Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Santa Clara, and Seattle had been moved to three pm PST. They had been initially scheduled for 10 am, however the Ticketmaster outage made the pre-sale inconceivable. The Taylor Swift Eras tour was initially introduced with 27 dates earlier than shortly increasing to 35 dates to accommodate demand. The tour now has 52 exhibits in whole.
“Sitting within the Ticketmaster queue whereas it’s paused actually has me wishing I by no means heard a Taylor swift tune in my life and that I didn’t know who she was,” tweeted one Swiftie who joked about being within the paused West Coast queue for pre-sale tickets.
“Can’t imagine Taylor Swift will end her tour earlier than the Ticketmaster queue unfreezes,” jokes one other fan on Twitter.
“I received a code and am logged in to the proper account, but it surely’s saying I’m not verified? What do I do?” one other fan writes on Twitter. Others echoed the grievance that verified entry codes weren’t working for followers.
“Followers who’ve acquired a code to the Taylor Swift ticket pre-sale ought to log in and entry the queue by way of the hyperlink they acquired by way of textual content relatively than coming into by way of the Ticketmaster homepage,” Ticketmaster instructed those that had entry codes. “This may guarantee an optimum buying expertise.
The U.S. leg of The Eras Tour will start on March 18 on the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. The tour will conclude on August 5 at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.
