Tens of thousands of users worldwide were unable to access or utilise the essential functionalities of Twitter Inc. on Wednesday due to a significant outage.
At the height of the outage, more than 10,000 people from the United States, roughly 2,500 users from Japan, and about 2,500 users from the UK were affected, according to Downdetector, a website that analyses outages through several sources, including user complaints.
According to the website, reports of Twitter outages drastically decreased by Wednesday night.
A request for comment from Twitter did not immediately receive a response. The status page of the social network indicates that all systems are up and running.
Some users were unable to access their Twitter accounts on desktop computers or laptops during the outage. The problem also had an impact on aspects of a mobile app, such as alerts.
Others turned to Twitter to share news and jokes about the outage, and the hashtag #TwitterDown became popular on the social networking platform.
Some desktop efforts to log in to Twitter resulted in the following error message: “It’s not your fault if something went wrong, so don’t worry about it. Retrying now.”
Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter, tweeted that he could still access the service.
When a user questioned Musk if Twitter was broken, Musk replied, “Works for me.”
The outage occurs two months after Musk’s chaotic and contentious $44 billion acquisition of Twitter.
According to some estimates, hundreds of Twitter workers left the social media business in November, including engineers in charge of bug fixes and service availability.
This year, outages have also affected other significant IT businesses. A almost 19-hour service interruption at Rogers Telecommunications, Canada’s largest telecom provider, in July prevented millions of people from accessing banking, transportation, and government services.
