Twitter Suffers Hours-Long Outage Globally. Details

Twitter went down on Friday after suffering an outage that led to several users being unable to use Twitter.

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New Delhi: Micro-blogging site Twitter went down on Friday after suffering an outage that led to several users being unable to use Twitter. According to outage detection site Downdetector, Twitter encountered a global outage, but the glitch was resolved shortly when Twitter services resumed, and many users on Twitter also posted about services being fixed.

The Twitter outage increased from 4,480 at around 4.40am to 37,419 at 6.55am, as per DownDetector. However, some reports suggest that several Twitter users were unable to access Twitter late on Thursday evening too. According to the official Twitter Support page, the Twitter outage was acknowledged and it also mentioned that the glitch was due to a technical issue. “Twitter may not have been working as expected for some of you over the past few hours,” the company said in a statement.

“We've fixed a technical bug that was affecting how Tweets get routed to our backend systems –– things should be back to normal now. Sorry for the interruption!” the company added.

Twitter may not have been working as expected for some of you over the past few hours. We've fixed a technical bug that was affecting how Tweets get routed to our backend systems –– things should be back to normal now. Sorry for the interruption!

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) January 21, 2022

At the time of writing this article, the micro-blogging seemed to be working fine at my end.

Meanwhile, according to outage detection platform Downdetector, platforms such as Counter-Strike, Roblox, Trello, Reddit, and Twitch also encountered outages in the past few hours. However, the reason for the outages on these platforms is not yet known. As per Downdetector, several users encountered issues with GTA 5 and the issues began affecting users on Thursday evening itself. The GTA 5 issues are still ongoing in some regions.