Twitter users worldwide report issues accessing social media platform
Global News
Twitter users were unable to log into the social media site on Thursday morning amid reports of a global outage on the popular platform.
Twitter’s users were shut out of the social media platform on Thursday with reports of a possible global outage.
The website downdetector.ca shows users began reporting issues just before 8 a.m. ET on Thursday.
There were at least 6,500 reports of an outage from Canada, with more than 54,000 reports of issues on the site in the United States. Users in other countries, including the United Kingdom, Mexico, Brazil and Italy, also reported Twitter not working.
The website was still giving users log-in errors as of 8:50 a.m. ET, but some saw service starting to return as of 9 a.m.
Global News has reached out to Twitter Canada for more details on the outage.
Twitter in February suffered an outage that disrupted services for several thousands of users. Later, the micro-blogging website said it fixed a software glitch.
The outage comes days after Twitter sued Tesla Inc. chief executive Elon Musk for violating his US$44-billion deal to buy the company and asked a Delaware court to order the world’s richest person to complete the merger at the agreed $54.20 per Twitter share.
More to come.