Taylor Swift’s mysterious social media disappearance prompts a madcap web scavenger hunt
Around 11AM ET, all traces of Taylor Swift disappeared from Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr, and her official website.
She’s been relatively quiet on social media all year, and last fall she broke with her tradition of releasing an album every other October. So, fans and amateur sleuths started digging through the source code of her website within minutes, looking for clues as to what was going on. Some guessed new music; some guessed a hack. Then Tumblr spat out hundreds of screenshots of the same dubious-looking DirecTV Now listing of a Swift appearance on tomorrow’s Good Morning America. There’s very little evidence to support anyone’s theory, but it’s fun to spend an otherwise-sleepy Friday afternoon trying to sort the riddle…
