Twitter down: Crash blocks access for thousands around the globe - firm issues statement
TWITTER has crashed leaving people in certain areas without access to the app, according to reports.
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Around 40,000 users across the globe are thought to have experienced issues. The company tweeted: “Tweets may not be loading for some of you.
“We’re working on fixing a problem and you’ll be back on the timeline soon.”
Twitter users first began reporting issues shortly before 1am today, UK time.
User reports suggest they were unable to log onto the app while others claimed tweets were not loading.
Monitoring website Downdetector.com tracked outages between 12.48am and 2.03am from a series of sources including user-submitted errors - and suggested around 40,000 users were affected.
One North American user wrote at 3.02am: “Twitter is mostly still down for me, so I can’t read anyone’s tweets, but I assume you’re saying nice things about me.”
Another Canadian user wrote: “If I may, I will add to the list of current issues: not being able to tweet, retrieve, load tweets, bookmarks, or even log in now.
“It was working perfectly earlier today.”
One Korean user wrote: “Some people can't log back onto the Twitter app either, it keeps saying error.”
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Tweets may not be loading for some of you. We’re working on fixing a problem and you’ll be back on the timeline soon.
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) April 17, 2021
Another said: “I will go to sleep now! Hopefully twitter is back up by the time I'm awake.”
This is the second crash the site has experienced in three weeks, as the social media app also went down on March 29.
Users across the globe experienced problems with the app with Downdetector reporting issues on every continent.
One South American user wrote: “Twitter is down in Chile.”
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While the issue is mostly cleared up in the UK, Downdetector is still reporting issues in other countries.
They last observed an increase in issues in Japan and Malaysia.