It isn’t just you – Twitter is down right now, with the social network down for many users across the world.
The issue began around 5am PT / 8am ET / 1pm BST on Thursday July 14 2022, with a huge spike in reports on services like DownDetector.
We’re still waiting for Twitter to confirm the issue and give us an estimation of when it might be fixed. But for now, here’s everything we know about the Twitter outage and how long it might last.
(Image credit: Downdetector)
As we mentioned above, issues with Twitter began in the early hours of the morning in the US and just as many in the UK were lunchtime scroll.
The outage tracker site DownDetector showed a massive spike in complaints, with users hitting up other social media sites to report problems.
If you’ve just logged onto Twitter, you’ll have likely seen this message up. The social network appears to be experiencing a big outage, with reports on Downdetector continuing to show a big spike.
We’re contacting Twitter to get official comment, but for now you’ll have to head to TikTok and Reddit to snack of memes and hot-takes.
(Image credit: Twitter)
The big Twitter outage appears to be a pretty global problem, with spikes in reports of issues in most countries. In the US, there were 54,000 reports of problems on Downdetector in the last few minutes – a lot more than the last time this happened in March.
It’s almost as big in the UK, though, with 27,000 reports there, reflecting the lunchtime frustration of those (including us) who just wanted to snack on the installment of the UK’s latest political psychodrama.
When there’s a big internet outage like this, the first place we usually turn to is… Twitter. The social network hasn’t responded to our requests for comment, but the issues seem to be easing in the UK at least.
Anecdotally, some members of the TechRadar team has found the site working again on desktop and mobile. But over in the US, there are still major issues – resulting in fun error messages like this.
(Image credit: Twitter)
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