I don't think that's it. I think new users checking to see what was happening. I think people weren't getting straight answers from the media, and wanted to see what was happening for themselves.

I think, maybe it was something like this:

Steve works in an office of 30 people. He is hen-pecked by 5 women who have formed a clique. They are all center-left politically as far as Steve can tell. "One of them says stuff about the new guy running for mayor of New York" he thinks. He's never heard of him. Steve isn't all that interested in politics, it's too messy and you could lose good friends over some bullshit internet crap. Better to just keep watching College and Professional football with his dad and friends. It's wholesome.

George is a friend of Steve who tries not talk about politics, but has said some rather controversial things when no one is watching. He definitely voted Trump. He didn't even have a pride pin on in all of February. He's a good guy, works hard, but always seems on shaky terms with the clique of women in the office.

On Wednesday, some of the women are not working. It happens enough occasionally when they decide to distract themselves it's due to a birthday, or a big event. But they're really invested in this. They're glued to their phones, laughing and snickering.

"OH MY GOD! DID YOU HEAR!" he hears one of them say in a loud whisper to the others. They're all smiles. Strange, but hey, if it's important, he'll find out on the news later.

Across from him, George grabs his phone, staring at it for a moment, he says "Oh my God!" in a shocked voice and walks off.

"That's really odd", Steve thinks. For now it's time to get back to those TPS reports, they're not gonna do themselves.

About 20 minutes later, George comes back. He's slumped in his chair. He looks distraught. Steve is a good man and wants to help out his friends and co-workers, so he asks him.

"Hey George, you okay?"

"Charlie Kirk got shot. They think he's gonna die", he looks like he's barely holding himself together.

Steve was sympathetic, "Oh my god, I'm sorry to hear that. ... Was he a friend of yours?"

"Ha." a brief smirk comes over George. "No, he's a political pundit on the internet. He's on Twitter a lot. He was a really nice guy and a lot of people liked him. He meant a lot to me."

Steve knew that that meant it was really important to George. He hadn't seen his friends get this upset since Dale Earnhardt died. RIP #3.

"... It was bad." George said, almost whispering to himself.

"What was?", Steve asked.

"... ... they shot him. It's all over Twitter. They shot him through the neck, Steve. I saw it. They shot him and his whole fucking neck exploded. His blood was pouring out! They shot him in front of his fucking kids." George was almost crying.

"Holy shit." Steve couldn't say anything else. George never even swears at work. This was raw pain from George, which is the last thing Steve expected today.

"Holy shit! Did you hear! Charlie Kirk is dead! Ha!" came a voice from the other side of the office.

"Yaaaas! Oh my god! It's all over my timeline!" it was the girls smiling and laughing.

Steve couldn't believe what he was seeing. All five women were now celebrating. Did he hear that right? We're they celebrating a murder? Did they see what George saw? How could they do that if George and the girls were seeing the same thing?

When he turned around to look back at George he saw an expression of disgust he didn't think a person could make, followed quickly by and expression of anger that he thought George couldn't make.

"I'm going home." George said curtly.

"But, It's not even 4:30 yet!"

"If those whores don't like it they can fucking fire me." George said gruffly as he quickly walked out of the office.

"... What the fuck is going on on Twitter?" he wondered to himself. He looked at the women cackling in the corner and thought to himself, "Maybe I need to go and find out..."