Twitter down: Global outage as over 22,000 social media users report issues with site

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Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources, showed that tens of thousands of outages have been reported worldwide (

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Twitter users around the world have reported problems accessing the social media platform.

According to Downdetector, the problems on the social media platform started after 1 p.m. for thousands of people.

Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from multiple sources, showed that nearly 30,000 outages have been reported worldwide.

Most reported issues were with the app, with these complaints accounting for 57% of reports.

Website-related issues accounted for 37% of reports, while 6% of complaints were about user flows.

A Down Detector user said it looked like his login servers were down because he was "immediately logged out" of the page.

The problems on the social media platform started after 1 p.m. for thousands of people (

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"When you reload the login page, it says the page is down," they said.

"Something went wrong. Try reloading." Yeah I've done it at least 50 times now," another user wrote.

Others have speculated that Elon Musk may have had something to do with the blackout.

"I wonder if they are updating the website to get rid of bots etc. or maybe Elon Musk broke it," they wrote.

"Has Musk killed Twitter?" another asked.

Twitter sued Elon Musk on Tuesday for breaching the £36.5 billion deal to buy the social media platform.

The tech company has asked a Delaware court to order the world's richest person to complete the merger at an agreed price of $54.20 per Twitter share, according to a court filing.

In a statement last Friday, the Tesla CEO sent a letter to the social media company's board saying he was