Twitter suffered a major outage on Wednesday, leaving tens of thousands of users globally unable to access or use key features of the popular social media platform.
Downdetector, a website that tracks outages through multiple 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 declined sharply by Wednesday evening.
Anyone else having problems logging in #Twitter on their computers? 😮 #TwitterDown #twitteroutage pic.twitter.com/Y6ijdwA6By
— My Kind of London 💙 (@MyKindofLondon) December 29, 2022
Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The social network’s status page shows that all systems are working.
During the outage, some users were unable to log into their Twitter account via desktop or laptop. The issue also affected the mobile app and features including notifications.
Others took to Twitter to share updates and memes about the service disruption, with the hashtag #TwitterDown trending on the social media site.
Twitter outages reported in the last 24 hours pic.twitter.com/M6ED4GHjGv
— Morgan (@Helloimmorgan) December 29, 2022
Some attempts to log in to Twitter from a desktop returned 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 was still able to use the service.
“Works for me,” Musk posted in response to a user who asked if Twitter was broken.
Works for me
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 29, 2022
The closure 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, including, by some estimates, engineers responsible for fixing bugs and preventing service outages.
Other major technology companies have also suffered 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.
