Twitter Down? Users Report Widespread Errors for Social Service

variety.com:

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorUPDATED: Twitter appeared to briefly suffer wide-scale technical problems Tuesday, as thousands of users reported problems accessing the service.Users error reports for Twitter spiked on service-monitoring site Downdetector at about 2 p.m.

ET Tuesday, with more than 15,000 complaints. By 2:07 p.m., that number had more than doubled.At 2:32 p.m. ET, Twitter’s support account acknowledged the issues. “Twitter may not be loading for some of you –– we’re working on a fix to get you back to your timelines ASAP,” it tweeted.

By 2:45 p.m. ET, error reports on Downdetector had dropped to under 1,000.Twitter may not be loading for some of you –– we're working on a fix to get you back to your timelines ASAP.— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) August 9, 2022The technical problems appeared to result in some users being logged out of Twitter.

The social network also was failing to load tweets and timelines. In some cases, attempting to load the main Twitter feed resulted in just the logo being displayed.Most recently, Twitter experienced an outage of about an hour last month.