Twitter suffered Global Outage

Twitter Inc suffered a major outage, leaving thousands of global users unable to access their accounts or use its key features for several hours. Most of the users reported that they faced technical issues accessing the social network via web browser. Downdetector showed more than 10,000 affected users from the US, about 2,500 from Japan and about 2,500 from the UK.

It is reported that the social media platform’s services are back online. However, Twitter’s status page showed that all systems were operational even after users’ reporting outage. During the outage, some users said they were unable to log in to their Twitter account via desktops or laptops.

A smaller number of users said the issue also affected the mobile app and features including notifications. Other users took to Twitter to share updates and memes about the service disruption, with #TwitterDown trending as a hashtag.

This is the first time that the social media site had a widespread service disruption since billionaire Elon Musk took over Twitter as CEO in late October. Hundreds of Twitter employees quit the social media company in November, by some estimates, including engineers responsible for fixing bugs and preventing service outages.