#ROOFBREAKUP

In November of 2013, I was enjoying some time on my roof with a few groups of people. Amongst the crowd, a couple emerged from the stairwell and began to fight, eventually starting to break up. I live-tweeted what I saw, and the tweets exploded, spreading all around the world. OVER 10 MILLION VIEWS! Dozens of news outlets and millions of people enjoyed the story. From Buzzfeed to Yahoo’s front page to Wired to Gawker, even Jerry Springer got into the action, creating a hilarious reenactment of the tweets. It was featured on Buzzfeed, Gawker, everywhere else on the internet, and still haunts me to this day. I even wrote something for CNN about it, and I’m not going to reread it and it probably doesn’t hold up.