Twitter seems to be having an outage. (File) Twitter appeared to have briefly gone down for many users across the world earlier today. The website DownDetector showed an outage for Twitter, and suggested that users had been facing issues since 11pm on February 11. We noticed that Twitter is also showing an error encountered for replies to most tweets.
The services are now reportedly back up for many on both the website and the Twitter app. While we still do not know what caused the outage, the issue has seemingly been fixed.
As per DownDetector, multiple cities in India reported a complete Twitter outage. This included Mumbai, Delhi, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Chennai, among other cities.
DownDetector reported that many Twitter users faced an issue with the platform at 11pm on February 11. (Image Source: DownDetector) While services like TweetDeck were reportedly working for some, the Twitter app and website seemed to not work completely. Affected users reported that they were not able to see tweets, or load replies to tweets that were already in their cache.
In India, this was the second mass-outage users faced as popular telecom service provider Bharti Airtel’s services went down briefly earlier on February 11. Airtel users reported not being able to use mobile data as well as Airtel broadband connections. The issue was fixed soon after people started reporting connectivity issues.
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