Twitter goes down, then back up again, for several users

Twitter goes down, then back up again, for several users

More than 6,000 reported issues with the website, about 93% according to an outage monitor.

SAN FRANCISCO:
Twitter Inc’s website was back up late today after being down for multiple users, according to outage monitoring website Downdetector.

More than 6,000 user reports indicated issues with Twitter as of 9.40pm US eastern time, about 93% of those being related to its website, according to Downdetector.

That number came down to less than 70 user reports in a little over two hours.

Twitter did not specify what had caused the outage but acknowledged that profile tweets were not loading for some web users and that they worked on a fix.

Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform.

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