Twitter outage on Thursday leaves several users globally helpless

A mega outage hit micro-blogging platform Twitter on Thursday evening as several users across the world had error messages like "this page is down".

According to outage monitoring website Downdetector, while 65 per cent were unable to log in to Twitter website, 34 per cent had issues with the app.

Several users also faced "over capacity" error messages across Twitter web, mobile and the TweetDeck app. Most users reported they were not able to access Twitter on desktops (85 per cent) and 8 per cent on Android devices, according to Downdetector.

"Twitter went down for a few minutes and you almost had a heart attack cos no matter you try to deny it, you really love this app," posted an affected user.

"When Twitter is down, where do you even complain about it being down," posted another.

According to some users, the service was resuming back to normal.

In March, an outage was reported in Japan, India, the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia when Twitter users in India experienced difficulties accessing the platform on desktops. In February, Twitter faced two mega outages as users were not able to post tweets for several minutes.