Twitter down! Service inaccessible for several users today

It was reported by many users that Twitter service was down earlier today. Several users were unable to access Twitter for a few hours on Thursday morning and they revealed that the company’s service was partially unavailable. Twitter outage lasted for as long as five hours. Users revealed that they were unable to access various services on web, according to reports.

Acknowledging the issue, Twitter posted this: "Profiles’ Tweets may not be loading for some of you on web and we’re currently working on a fix. Thanks for sticking with us!"

Twitter resolved the issues with its service within three hours after acknowledging the reports of users being unable to access profiles’ tweets. According to the report, a majority of users (about 93 percent) were not able to access the website, which dropped down to around 2,600 user reports as Twitter began working to restore access.

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At 9:07 AM the service posted a tweet saying that people should be able to load tweets on user profiles, but other parts of Twitter were still not loading properly for some users. Twitter support finally tweeted that the service was restored at 10 AM. However, users were still unable to access the service for a couple of hours after that. Finally, we were able to access the site, the search function and user profiles properly at around 1 PM.

Meanwhile, Twitter recently announced that it was adding support for security keys to be added as the only form of two-factor authentication for user accounts. This means that users will now be able to use a security key, like a YubiKey, to secure their Twitter accounts from phishing and hacking attempts. These security keys are much more secure than using SMS for authentication, and Twitter users can make sure of this feature right away.