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After an agonising three-year wait, Netflix dropped the first part of Stranger Things season five – and fans were not messing about.

As the first four episodes landed, outage tracker Downdetector flagged 14,000 cases in the US and hundreds more in countries such as India, causing the streaming giant to briefly crash.

‘Some members briefly experienced an issue stream

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