Last Update: December 29, 2022, 12:07 pm IST
Most of the reports came from users who said they encountered technical problems accessing the social network through a web browser. (Image: Reuters)
The micro-blogging platform faced a major outage, leaving tens of thousands of users unable to access it globally. Twitter is now back online.
Twitter Inc suffered a major problem on Wednesday, leaving tens of thousands of users around the world unable to access the popular social media platform or use its key features for several hours before the services came back online.
The incident is the social media site’s first apparent widespread service disruption since Billionaire. Elon Musk Took over Twitter as CEO in late October.
Downdetector, a website that tracks the outage through a range of sources including user reports, 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.
Most of the reports came from users who said they encountered technical problems accessing the social network through a web browser.
According to the website, reports of Twitter outages declined sharply by Wednesday evening, with some users later commenting that service had returned to normal.
Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment and the social network’s status page showed all systems were in place.
Musk tweeted later Wednesday that “significant backend server architecture changes” had been introduced and that “Twitter should feel faster,” but his post made no reference to downtime reported by users.
During the outage, some users said they were unable to log into their Twitter accounts via desktop or laptop. A small number of users said the problem also affected features including mobile apps and 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.
Some attempts to log in to Twitter from desktop gave an error message saying: “Something went wrong, but don’t worry – it’s not your fault. Let’s try again.”
Musk tweeted that he was still able to use the service.
“Works for me,” Musk posted, responding to a user who asked if Twitter was broken.
The outage comes two months after Musk completed his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, which has been marked by chaos and controversy.
By some estimates, hundreds of Twitter employees left the social media company in November, including engineers responsible for fixing bugs and preventing service outages.
Thousands of Twitter users were also affected by a global outage in February and July before Musk’s takeover.
Other big technology companies have also been hit by outages this year. In July, a nearly 19-hour service outage at Rogers Telecommunications, Canada’s largest telecom operator, shut down banking, transportation and government access for millions of people.
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