Twitter on Thursday morning was down and not showing tweets to users. However, the services were restored after an outage lasting more than an hour
While the Twitter app and websites were up, users were not able to see any tweets on any of their tabs. All tabs — including Following, For You and Lists — were empty.
The problem is global and not just specific to Indian users. It seems that the issue is affecting only visibility of the tweets. This is because within minutes of the issue surfacing, #TwitterDown is already trending on the website. So, users can create and post tweets. It’s just that those tweets aren’t visible to anyone at the moment.
Interestingly, Twitter Spaces is working all fine and many users are now hosting their “spaces” to discuss the ongoing outage on the website.
The Elon Musk owned platform has faced technical issues multiple times in the past couple of months. On December 14, all outgoing links from X suddenly stopped working. There was an issue with the URL redirect function that usually tracks user activity before redirecting them elsewhere. Instead of reaching their intended destination, users were directed to a basic error page.
The error message humorously stated, “This page is down. I scream. You scream. We all scream… for us to fix this page. We’ll stop making jokes and get things up and running soon.” This year alone, it faced disruptions in March and July. In July, Downdetector recorded over 13,000 instances of X being down in the US and the UK. Users encountered an error message stating, “Sorry, you are rate limited. Please wait a few moments then try again.”