Just after 3:20 p.m. EST Saturday, Twitter was down and never working for tens of millions of its customers. According to Down Detector, the outages had been most reported alongside the East Coast of the United States and in Western Europe. The Twitter outage map confirmed little or no outages reported on the West Coast of the U.S.
When customers go to Twitter at the moment they’re greeted with an error message. “Something is technically wrong. Thanks for noticing—we’re going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon.”
“Twitter doesn’t work on the tablet either have to do this from my phone. won’t load my tweets but is logged into my account,” one Down Detector person wrote.
“Omg why are my twitter notifications not working,” one other stated.
Twitter seemed to be down throughout platforms; each for iOS and android in addition to desktop and third-party websites like Tweetdeck.
Update: As of three:40 p.m., many customers at the moment are reporting that Twitter is working once more and again on-line.
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