Twitter Global Outage: Services Restored After Users Reported Issues

Microblogging website Twitter confronted an outage on Wednesday with a number of customers, together with these in India, reporting points with refreshing their newsfeeds or posting new content material on the web site.

The service, which went down at round 4 pm resumed after a short time.

According to the outage monitoring web site, Downdetector, affected areas in India included main cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Nagpur, Lucknow and Patna amongst others.

Users in India complained in regards to the Twitter homepage being unable to load. The difficulty started round 4 pm. The customers claimed social media web site was not permitting customers to refresh their feeds. Issues have been mirrored not solely on the internet model but additionally on the Twitter app for iPhone and Android.

As many as 58 p.c of customers had issues with the cell app whereas 37 p.c had points with the desktop web site, with the remaining 5 p.c complaining in regards to the server connection, as per the Downdetector.

After connectivity was restored, many customers swarmed the microblogging platform to share their ideas on the outage.

Several Indian customers famous that the community went down solely on Jio networks.

It was earlier reported that a pop-up message appeared for some customers who tried to entry their feeds, which learn, “Welcome to Twitter! This is the best place to see what’s happening in your world. Find some people and topics to follow now.”

Reuters, alternatively, talked about that greater than 4,500 customers within the United States reported points with accessing the social media website, in response to Downdetector.

Twitter didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark. The social community’s standing web page confirmed that each one methods have been operational.

Twitter, which was acquired by billionaire Elon Musk in a $44 billion (practically Rs. 3,62,900 crore) takeover final 12 months, suffered a serious outage in December, leaving tens of 1000’s of customers globally unable to entry the platform or use its key options for a number of hours earlier than providers appeared to come back again on-line.