Twitter suffered an outage on Thursday as thousands of threads and profiles failed to load up, even though timelines remained accessible. Although Twitter was not completely down, some users also reported that while their home page showed tweets, the error was faced upon clicking them, or the profiles. Several users took to their personal handles to complain of Twitter being down.
According to users, the microblogging site remained inaccessible for many on their personal computers while some users said the social media platform was “mostly functional” on mobile devices. Twitter had faced a similar “brief” outage in April this year.
According to Downdetector, a website that keeps track of outages, Twitter faced problems since 9:33 pm EDT or 7:03 am IST. Twitter outages peaked at 7 am IST. While the users reported issues with tweet loading, other features like timeline content, Twitter trends, and follow buttons seem to be working fine.
More than 6,000 user reports indicated issues with Twitter as of 0140 GMT, about 93 per cent of those being related to its website, according to Downdetector. That number came down to more than 2,600 user reports within an hour. About 78 per cent of users are facing issues on the desktop website, while some 19 per cent on Android app and fewer than 3 per cent on iOS app. Until now it remains unclear what the cause of the outage is or how long it will last.
Netizens reacted to the news of the outage and began trending “Twitter Down” to share details of the problems that they were facing. Most users were being hit with a similar message — “Something went wrong, but don’t fret: It’s not your fault” — which Twitter has displayed for accounts facing the problem.
Taking note of the issues, Twitter did not specify what had caused the outage but acknowledged that profile tweets were not loading for some web users and that they worked on a fix. “Tweets should now be visible on profiles, but other parts of Twitter for web may not be loading for you. We’re continuing to work on getting things back to normal,” the social media site said in a tweet. In another tweet shared after nearly an hour, it said that the services are back.
