Twitter users reported serious problems accessing the service Thursday afternoon across the US, Europe and other parts of the world
A notice posted on the Twitter status page at 5:56 p.m. ET said the company was « investigating the irregularity with the Twitter APIs »
“We know people have trouble tweeting and using Twitter,” a company rep told Variety “We’re working to fix this as quickly as possible We’ll share more when we have it and tweet from @TwitterSupport when we can – stay tuned «
The Twitter spokesperson added: « We have no evidence of a security breach or hack, and we are currently investigating internal causes »
According to DownDetectorcom, reports of problems with Twitter began to increase just after 5:30 p.m. ET, and soared to over 45,000 by 5:42 p.m. Social service users reported the inability to post tweets, access their timeline or view notifications On desktop and mobile apps, Twitter was showing error messages saying: « An error has occurred » and « Tweets are not loading at the moment »
Twitter jumped into the political spotlight this week, after blocking users from tweeting or retweeting a disputed New York Post article about Hunter Biden that sparked calls from Republicans demanding that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, explains why the company was preventing users from sharing the post story Twitter said the tweets containing links to the post’s articles violated its policy against sharing pirated material
Separately, this summer, Twitter suffered a massive coordinated attack on high profile accounts of several celebrities, politicians, tech titans and Silicon Valley companies The hack, which took place on July 15, was aimed at around 130 separate accounts, depending on the company
Like other internet services, Twitter has experienced blackouts in the past As of July 2019, the social network was down for around an hour worldwide on both mobile and desktop
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