Dec 28 (Reuters) – Twitter Inc suffered a major outage on Wednesday, leaving tens of thousands of users worldwide unable to access the popular social media platform or use key features.
Downdetector, a website that tracks outages through a range of sources, including user reports, showed more than 10,000 affected users in the US, about 2,500 in Japan and about 2,500 in the UK in the peak of disruption.
Reports of Twitter outages fell sharply Wednesday evening, according to the website.
Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The social network’s status page shows that all systems are operational.
During the outage, some users were unable to log into their Twitter account using desktop or laptop computers. The issue also affected the mobile app and features, including notifications.
Others took to Twitter to share updates and memes about the service outage, with #TwitterDown as the hashtag on the social media site.
Some attempts to log into Twitter from the desktop resulted in an error message that said, “Something went wrong, but don’t worry, it’s not your fault. Let’s try again.”
Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweeted that he could still use the service.
“It works for me,” Musk posted in response to a user who asked if Twitter was broken.
The disruption comes two months after Musk’s $44 billion takeover of Twitter, which has been marred by chaos and controversy.
Hundreds of Twitter employees left the social media company in November, according to some estimates, including engineers responsible for fixing bugs and preventing service outages.
Other big tech companies have also suffered outages this year. In July, a nearly 19-hour service outage at Canada’s largest telecommunications carrier, Rogers Telecommunications, shut down access to banking, transportation and government for millions.
Reporting by Akriti Sharma, Mrinmay Dey and Shubhendu Deshmukh in Bangalore; Editing by Krishna Chandra Eluri and Sam Holmes
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