Washington, October 16: Twitter is experiencing a massive outrage as "tens and thousands of users" complained of being unable to use the platform.
Complaints were registered as whenever the user tried to post a message, it showed, "Oops, something went wrong!" It was also reported that the 'notifications' and 'mentions' feeds were also unavailable.
"We are currently investigating this issue. More updates to come," the company said in a statement as quoted by Sputnik on Thursday. Twitter Goes Down, Users Unable to Tweet, Error Messages of 'Try Again, Something Went Wrong' and ‘Twitter Is Experiencing Over Capacity’ Flash on Microblogging Platform.
'Don't have any evidence of security breach and hacking', says Twitter:
Twitter has been down for many of you and we’re working to get it back up and running for everyone.
We had some trouble with our internal systems and don’t have any evidence of a security breach or hack.
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) October 15, 2020
The Downdector.com monitoring site showed that over 50,000 complaints were made between around 5:15 p.m. EST (9:15 p.m. GMT) and 6:30 p.m.
More details are awaited.
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