Twitter down: social media website and app aren’t working – again
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Oh wait – Twitter is back! (for me at least)
This suggests the end of the outage could be here – just in time for you to return to work after your lunch break. What bad luck.
Reports are well over 4,000 at the moment.
For context, the baseline is 3. That’s a big difference.
We’re seeing a growing number of reports of outages from the US, but TechRadar’s team based there hasn’t seen anything.
It’s likely that a server in Europe is at fault, which is why it’s so much more of an issue for our UK readers than our US ones.
But we’re waiting to find out from Twitter to see what’s going on.
Reddit to the rescue though:
There’s no official comment, but there are people from around the world commenting to say that Reddit isn’t working for them.
Unfortunately, because Reddit’s support and news room sites are all hosted by the media giant itself, they’re not working either.
Usually when there’s an internet outage, people turn to Twitter to look for answers. That’s… a little harder now.
We looked at Facebook, but Twitter itself hasn’t posted there for several months. Last time it did, it was a screenshot of a Tweet about cats. What is this, 2007?
Facebook is a bit more community-focused though, so it’s harder to see what people in the wider world are saying.
This outage has come less than six weeks after the last Twitter outage.
That was a smaller one, as the main Twitter feed would load, but Tweets wouldn’t – so you could see them, but not click on them or interact with them.
Now, you can’t see anything – it’s radio silence.
In the UK, DownDetector reports more than 4,000 reports in the last few minutes. That’s a huge number given how many we normally see – even for the major outages that affect multiple websites, we usually see one or two thousand reports.
Judging by reports from Downdetector and TechRadar’s US team, the outage is affecting far fewer people in the US than in the UK – it seems mainly a British problem. Well, we can add that to the list after Freddos costing more, Magnums getting smaller and the whole cost of living thing.
We just wanted to post a funny joke, and now we’ve discovered that Twitter isn’t working. We’re investigating.
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