Twitter global outage affects thousands of users
Twitter users ran into some technical problems on Wednesday evening
as a major outage left thousands of users unable to use features on the
social media site.
The outages were reported by Downdetector, a website that tracks outages through a range of sources including user reports.
Data
showed more than 10,000 affected users from the United States, about
2,500 from Japan and about 2,500 from the UK at the peak of the
disruption.
Outages started to appear around 7:00 p.m. ET, with outages falling sharply later in the evening.
Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Among the problems reported were users being unable to log in to their Twitter account via desktops or laptops.
The issue also affected the mobile app and some features such as notifications.
Others took to Twitter to share updates and memes about the service
disruption, with #TwitterDown trending as a hashtag on the social media
site.
The outage comes two months after Elon Musk's $44 billion takeover of Twitter
