With no way to post on X, social media users published updates about the outage on rivals including Facebook, Threads, and Reddit. The platform resumed service for users in multiple countries shortly after 0640 GMT. At the outage's peak, Downdetector indicated that about 67,000 US users reported problems.
Twitter outages hit thousands of users worldwide
DownDetector reported a spike in issues with Twitter starting around 7 pm Eastern time (midnight GMT), with users unable to see their main feed, check notifications or use other functions such as lists. The number of reports logged by the monitor from other countries ranged from a few hundred to...Google outage reported by tens of thousands of users
More than 40,000 users, including in New York City and Denver, Colorado, reported disruptions when trying to use Google's services, particularly the maps and search engine. After around two hours, reports of the outage began tapering, but a small number of users continued to report trouble accessing Google's cloud and...
Twitter down for short period in US, Europe, restored later
Twitter experienced a widespread but seemingly brief outage in the United States and parts of Europe on Thursday. The Downdetector website showed that outage reports spiked in the United States around 1200 GMT, while users reported service interruptions in France and elsewhere.
