Twitter outage affected thousands of users globally

Twitter Inc suffered a major glitch on Wednesday, leaving tens of thousands of users globally unable to access the popular social media platform or use its key features.

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.

According to the website, reports of Twitter outages fell sharply by Wednesday evening.

Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The status page of the social network shows that all systems are operational.

During the outage, some users were unable to log into their Twitter accounts via desktop or laptop. The issue also affected features including the mobile app 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.”

Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweeted that he was still able to use the service.

“Works for me,” Musk posted in response to a user who asked if Twitter was broken.

The outage comes two months after Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter 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.

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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