SAN FRANCISCO – Twitter was working yesterday evening to resolve a global outage of the social media platform used by hundreds of millions worldwide.
The outage marked a new setback for the network, which is fending off accusations of bias over its decision to block a news report critical of Democratic White House candidate Joe Biden.
“We know people are having trouble tweeting and using Twitter. We’re working to fix this issue as quickly as possible,” a company spokesman told AFP.
Repeated attempts to post a tweet were greeted with the message: “Something went wrong, but don’t fret – let’s give it another shot.”
According to downdetector.com, users on every continent reported being unable to use the platform, but the outages were concentrated in the east and west coasts of the US, as well as Japan.
The outage appeared to have started about 2130 GMT (5.50am today Malaysian time).
“We are continuing to monitor as our teams investigate. More updates to come,” said Twitter’s application programming interface site. – AFP, October 16, 2020
