Twitter is down in a global outage

Twitter, the social media giant with 330 million active users, was back online on Thursday morning after reports of a global blackout at a sensitive time for Twitter. company, which is locked in a heated legal battle with billionaire Elon Musk over its acquisition.

Downdetector, a website that tracks internet outages, Logged over 54,000 outage reports on the social media platform from approximately 8:3:00 p.m. EST. Less than an hour later, Twitter acknowledged in a tweet that it was trying to resolve issues users were having accessing the platform. "We're working to get it back up and running for everyone," the company said.

The service outage is another headache for Twitter, which has sued Mr. Musk for Tuesday in Chancery Court in Delaware to force him into a $44 billion deal for the company. Mr. Musk agreed in April to buy Twitter, but said last week that he intended to back out of the purchase.

Mr. Musk cited concerns about the number of fake accounts on Twitter to justify his withdrawal from the deal, saying he doesn't believe the company's claims that around 5% of its active users are bots. For months, Mr. Musk criticized Twitter and its executives on the platform, even going so far as to tweet a poo emoji in response to a message from Parag Agrawal, the company's chief executive.

Twitter shares have fallen more than 28% since April 25, when Mr. Musk reached a deal to buy the company for $54.20 a share. By comparison, the Nasdaq fell about 13.5%.

Twitter remains determined to stop Mr. Musk from closing the deal and calls for a four-day trial in September.< /p>

"Musk refuses to honor his obligations to Twitter and its shareholders because the agreement he signed no longer serves his personal interests," said the company in the lawsuit. "Musk apparently believes that he - unlike all other parties subject to Delaware contract law - is free to change his mind, destroy the company, disrupt its operations, destroy shareholder value and s 'go away.'