Twitter was down this afternoon for at least tens of thousands of users around the world.
After about half an hour, the social network appeared again with some users’ information.
Thousands of people in the UK and US have complained to the web monitoring service Down Detector.
There were 29,266 complaints as of 1:30pm UK time and 54,994 in the US.
Users in other countries, including Mexico, Brazil, and Italy have also reported issues.
When the web page loads, the page displays an error message and asks the user to try again.
Most of the issues reported were related to accessing the Twitter app and website.
Twitter’s own status page provides no information during the outage, displaying the message “All systems are up and running.”
Soon it started coming back.
This is the first major Twitter outage since the US crash in February due to a technical failure.
On October 4, 2021, FacebookInstagram and Whatsapp were down for a period of six to seven hours.
The outage was caused by the loss of IP routes to Facebook’s servers.
On Saturday Elon Musk pulls out of Twitter takeover deal for $44 billion (£36.5 billion).
The Tesla CEO reached an agreement to buy Twitter in April, but began to express doubts after allegations of spam accounts.
