Twitter Down Today? Global Outage Hits Thousands Of Users

Twitter was down for several users for couple of minutes for several users and nearly 55% of users reported problem in accessing the social media platform from mobile app.

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New Delhi: Thousands of Twittrati across the globe faced an outage after the microblogging site Twitter went down on Thursday (February 23) today. Many Twitterati complained about not being able to access the microblogging site on various other social media platforms.

Over 2000 people reported facing issues on Twitter according to Downdetector.in of which 55% of problems were reported for mobile apps and 36% users reported problems on the website and 9% reported server connection problems. 

The outage of the social media platform was brief and the services of the microblogging site were restored after some time.

Earlier on February 19 also global users reported not being able to open Twitter on their mobile devices. The tracking site downdetector.in had seen a major spike on Feb 19 from midnight to 2.00 Am. Twitter was down for over 2 hours in many parts of the world.

According to the media reports,The majority of complaints came from smartphone users, who accounted for 56% of all submissions. Twitter has not issued an official statement on the problem, although it is probable that they are investigating the source of the outage.

Twitter appears to have had an outage, as the network is having difficulty loading posts on the timeline.  According to media reports, over 500 complaints have been registered in just a few minutes after the outage, which is expected to have occurred post-10 pm. The outage-tracking website indicated that smartphone users reported 56% of the complaints, while 37% and 8% reported problems with the website and server connectivity, respectively.