Twitter experiences brief outage, thousands across globe unable to access feed

New Delhi: Twitter experienced a widespread but seemingly brief outage across the world on Thursday.

Individuals attempting to use the social media platform were met with a message saying “Tweets aren't loading right now. Try again." According to Downdetector, users began reporting the outage around 8 am EDT. About an hour later, the service began to return. By around 12.45 GMT reports of outages to Downdetector were dropping off and users were back on the social media platform joking about the disruption.

It was not clear what caused the outage.

"I've just had my most productive 30 minutes for years. In unrelated news, it seems Twitter went down for 30 minutes," tweeted @joelyagar.

Meanwhile, the Twitter Support handle tweeted, "Some of you are having issues accessing Twitter and we’re working to get it back up and running for everyone. Thanks for sticking with us."

Some of you are having issues accessing Twitter and we’re working to get it back up and running for everyone. Thanks for sticking with us.

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 14, 2022

While Twitter's own status page said that they are investigating the issue.

Service disruptions on social media platforms happen periodically, but major and long-term service outages are not common. Twitter was infamous for outages in its early days but as it grew the problems became less common. Still, it suffered outages earlier this year, in February.

The service problems on Twitter come as the company has embarked on a legal fight with Elon Musk over his moves to walk away from his $44 billion buyout bid that has roiled the company.

Twitter has sued to force Musk to complete the deal after he said he was terminating it over issues including his argument that the company has not been forthcoming about the number of fake accounts.

With input from agencies

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