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Ticketing app chaos hit the World Cup, too.

The FIFA app crashed in Qatar today, ESPN reported, and thousands of fans couldn’t access their tickets or get into games. They had to resort to printing out tickets, like our ancestors once did.

First Taylor Swift, now this? Ticketing is either way harder than it seems, or in serious need of some disruption. (I have a theory on which one it is.)

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