For Taylor Swift's upcoming Eras tour, the Ticketmaster owner says it sold the most tickets for an artist in a single day.
“We invited a million and a half on that day to come and buy those tickets, but it’s kind of like having a party. Everybody crashed that door at the same time with 3.5 billion requests,” Rapino said. Site visits also included bots, as well as fans who did not have codes to purchase tickets.
“We sold two million tickets, the most we’ve ever sold in one day in history, and another million tickets of other artists on the same day. So although we regret it was a slowdown in some queues and some error codes for a short period for some fans, we did manage to recover,” the Live Nation exec added.
Still the long waits for buying tickets and error messages on the site sparked vitriol among many Taylor Swift fans, who took to social media to decry the ticket buying process. On Tuesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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