Twitter down: Thousands of social media users report outage with website and app
TWITTER is down for users across the globe as thousands of frustrated users report issues.
Problems started around 12pm ET (5pm GMT), according to Downdetector.
Twitter said: “We’ve fixed a technical bug that was preventing timelines from loading and Tweets from posting.
“Things should be back to normal now. Sorry for the interruption!”
Downdetector had over 45,000 reports of Twitter issues and that was just from the US.
Almost 16,000 people reported issues in the UK.
Some people could access the site but couldn’t use basic features like retweeting or reading replies.
Most reports were about website issues, closely followed by app issues.
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One Twitter user wrote on Downdetector: “Still can’t retweet, read replies etc.
“Can only read tweets from my TL before the crash happened/ Twitter Search is functioning normally though (all recent tweets).”
Another person joked: “What am I supposed to do with my life now?”
One added: “Twitter completely down.”
And, another complained: “Down In Chennai, India. Post your city”.
Reports of problems are now dropping on Downdetector.
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