Twitter service resumes after outage hits thousands of users globally

Twitter service resumes after outage hits thousands of users globally on Thursday.

Twitter suffered a major outage across the globe as its users were unable to access the popular microblogging platform or use its key features.

Reports of Twitter outages fell sharply by Wednesday evening (Morning in Pakistan), according to the website.

According to Downdetector, a website that tracks outages through a range of sources including user reports, more than 10,000 affected users from the United States, about 2,500 from Japan, and about 2,500 from the UK at the peak of the disruption.

 

Twitter CEO Elon Musk in a tweet said that he was still able to use the service.

“Works for me,” Musk posted in response to a user who asked if Twitter was broken.

Twitter outages reported in the last 24 hours pic.twitter.com/M6ED4GHjGv

— Morgan (@Helloimmorgan) December 29, 2022

Here is how social media reacted to the recent outage:

Live footage of Elon Musk using his engineering skills to repair Twitter. #TwitterDown pic.twitter.com/onQzi06fGS

— Mark Strauss (@MarkDStrauss) December 29, 2022

Tesla engineers at Twitter HQ trying to fix Twitter #TwitterDown pic.twitter.com/SFfbClp9hc

— Isik Mater🌻 @[email protected] (@isik5) December 29, 2022

Yes, Twitter error, I know it's not my fault. In fact, I even know whose fault it is!#TwitterDown pic.twitter.com/dlWE8Nb4EK

— Anthony Citrano (@acitrano) December 29, 2022

Welp, this isn’t good 🐺#TwitterDown #RIPTwitter ? pic.twitter.com/Vzei0u5OPs

— Wolf Conservation Center (@nywolforg) December 29, 2022