Twitter Down For Millions Of Users Worldwide

Social media site Twitter was sporadically down across much of Europe and portions of the US early Tuesday.

The website is unavailable and users were greeted with a holding page while on the Twitter mobile and tablet app, newsfeeds were not being refreshed.

According to their service status board, “Some users are now experiencing problems accessing Twitter”. The status also said that they were aware of the situation and were working on it to find the best resolution. The APIs for users’ home timelines and for searching tweets appear to have been the hardest hit during the outage, with average uptimes of just over 85 percent over the past 24 hours.

Some users reported intermittent service using the mobile app, with a handful taking the opportunity to poke fun at the San Francisco-based company.

Many news organizations across the globe reported on the outage. The last major drop in service occurred in 2014 when the site was down for about 45 minutes. “Thanks for noticing, we will fix it up and have things back to normal soon”.

Users in affected countries were met with the message: “Something is technically wrong”. DownDetector, a website which reports of site and service outages, confirms that Twitter is indeed having problems.

Meanwhile Twitter users, who usually post 6,000 tweets per second, struggled to cope with the outage.

Twitter administrators have noted in the company’s developer dashboard that three parts of its service are all seeing service disruption.

Twitter has suffered an outage this morning at approximately 8:25am United Kingdom time.

The shutdown was also the butt of jokes from some social media channels, with British TV channel E4 posting on its Facebook page: “Twitter is down”.