Twitter outage hits hundreds of customers globally

Twitter Inc suffered a significant outage on Wednesday, leaving tens of hundreds of customers globally unable to entry the favored social media platform or use its key options.

Downdetector, an internet site that tracks outages by means of a variety of sources together with consumer stories, confirmed greater than 10,000 affected customers from the USA, about 2,500 from Japan and about 2,500 from the UK on the peak of the disruption.

Reviews of Twitter outages fell sharply by Wednesday night, in keeping with the web site.

Twitter didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. The social community’s standing web page reveals that every one programs are operational.

Throughout the outage, some customers had been unable to log in to their Twitter account by way of desktops or laptops. The problem additionally affected the cellular app and options together with notifications.

Others took to Twitter to share updates and memes in regards to the service disruption, with #TwitterDown trending as a hashtag on the social media web site.

Some makes an attempt to log in to Twitter from the desktop prompted an error message saying: “One thing went unsuitable, however don’t fret — it’s not your fault. Let’s attempt once more.”

Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweeted he was nonetheless in a position to make use of the service.

“Works for me,” Musk posted in response to a consumer who requested if Twitter was damaged.

The outage comes two months after Musk’s $44 billion takeover of Twitter, which has been marked by chaos and controversy.

A whole lot of Twitter workers give up the social media firm in November, by some estimates, together with engineers liable for fixing bugs and stopping service outages.

Different massive expertise corporations have additionally been hit by outages this yr. In July, a close to 19-hour service outage at Canada’s largest telecom operator Rogers Telecommunications shut banking, transport and authorities entry for hundreds of thousands.

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