New Delhi, April 17: Twitter faced outage several times on Saturday, causing inconvenience to millions of users across the globe. Users were not able to sign in, post tweets for a brief time during the day. Several users also complained that they faced inconvenience as they were┬аunable to access the micro-blogging website, check their timelines, or retweet.┬аAn error message on Twitter said, тАЬSomething went wrong. Try again.тАЭ
On Twitter,┬аusers are able to post from various devices and platforms including the iOS, Android, Blackberry and via any web browser. Due to the outage,┬аmany users were not able to tweet, check timelines while a majority of them could not log in or use the app. However, Tweetdeck worked for some users even though the app was down.
Earlier in the day, Twitter┬аInc said that some of its users may be facing issues since 6 pm EST.┬а“Tweets may not be loading for some of you. We’re working on fixing a problem and you’ll be back on the timeline soon,” said the social media company said in a tweet.┬аAccording to Downdetector.com, the┬аoutage monitoring website, some 40,000 users reported issues with the social media platform.
A close look at┬аDownDetector, the website that keeps an eye on various online services, users in India reported of problems on Twitter around 5.45 am and spiked just before┬а6 am IST, then again around 12,30 PM and again around 6 PM on Saturday. More than 959┬аpeople had reported issues as of 6 pm, according to DownDetector.
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