Twitter Back Online After Major Outage That Affected Tens of Thousands of Users

Last Updated: December 29, 2022, 12:07 ISTMost of the reports came from users stating they faced technical issues accessing the social network via web browser. (Image: Reuters)The

micro-blogging platform suffered a major outage, leaving tens of thousands of users globally unable to access it. Twitter is now back online.Twitter Inc suffered a major outage on

Wednesday, leaving tens of thousands of users globally unable to access the popular social media platform or use its key features for several hours before services appeared to come

back online.The incident is the social media site's first apparent widespread service disruption since billionaire Elon Musk took over Twitter as CEO in late October.Downdetector,

a website that tracks outages through a range of 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.Most of the reports came from users stating they faced technical issues accessing the social network via web browser.Reports of

Twitter outages fell sharply by Wednesday evening, according to the website, with some users later commenting service had returned to normal.Twitter did not immediately respond to

a request for comment and the social network's status page showed that all systems were operational.Musk tweeted later on Wednesday that "Significant backend server architecture

changes" had been rolled out and that "Twitter should feel faster", but his post did not make any reference to the downtime reported by users.During the outage, some users said

they were unable to log in to their Twitter account via desktops or laptops. A smaller number of users said 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 #TwitterDown trending as a hashtag on the social media site.Some attempts to log

in to Twitter from desktops prompted an error message saying: “Something went wrong, but don't fret — it's not your fault. Let's try again.Musk tweeted that he was still able

to use the service."Works for me," Musk posted, responding to a user who asked if Twitter was broken.The outage comes two months after Musk completed his $44 billion takeover of

Twitter, which has been marked by chaos and controversy.Hundreds of Twitter employees quit the social media company in November, by some estimates, including engineers responsible

for fixing bugs and preventing service outages.Thousands of Twitter users were also hit by a global outage in February and July, before Musk's takeover.Other big technology Find Out More