Ebun Olowu
Twitter says it is working to resolve a global outage of the platform used by hundreds of millions worldwide.
The outage which started on Thursday evening marked a new setback for the network, which is fending off accusations of bias over the decision to block a news report critical of Democratic White House candidate Joe Biden.
Twitter users reported broad problems accessing the service Thursday afternoon across the U.S., Europe and other parts of the world, with the technical issues lasting for more than two hours.
According to DownDetector.com, reports of problems with Twitter began to spike just after 5:30 p.m. ET, and soared to over 53,000 complaints by 5:58 p.m. Those began to taper off about 20 minutes later.
In an update posted at 8:14 p.m. ET, Twitter’s communications team wrote, “The recent issue was caused by an inadvertent change we made to our internal systems. Twitter should be working for everyone within the next few hours.”
Earlier, a company rep told Variety, “We know people are having trouble tweeting and using Twitter. We’re working to fix this issue as quickly as possible. We’ll share more when we have it and tweet from @TwitterSupport when we can – stay tuned.”
Twitter said its social networking site was down for many users due to an inadvertent change it had made to its internal systems but the platform seemed to be returning to normal after the outage https://t.co/wtjP9EYTne pic.twitter.com/OC0swodHlf
— Ashrf Ben Ali Ⓜ️ (@AshrfSben) October 16, 2020
