Thousands of Twitter users around the world have reported problems connecting to the platform, both from computers and mobile devices.
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While the Twitter API status page did not indicate any technical issues, nearly 55,000 users reported within 30 minutes that the service was down.
The browser version of the Twitter app also displayed the typical “ Something went wrong, but don’t worry – it’s not your fault ” errors .
On mobile, the service displayed the message “Oops, something went wrong. But don’t worry – it’s not your fault,” without providing further details.
The issue behind the outage remains unclear, but it prevented users from retrieving or posting tweets and caused problems when logging into their accounts.
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While Twitter's API Status page showed that all systems were operational, attempting to reload the page was taking much longer than normal.
The Twitter Support account also didn't mention anything about the current outage.
At approximately 9:09 AM Eastern Time, Twitter's API Status page was updated to indicate that there was a " potential outage " that was under investigation.
The page shows degraded performance for several APIs, including endpoints for standard statuses or updates, Tweet v2 feed endpoints, and standard endpoints responsible for searches, followers, user timelines, reports, and trends.
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At 12:41 PM Eastern Time, Twitter confirmed that there were “some issues with our internal systems,” which affected users around the world. The issues have been fixed and the service should be back up and running now.
Twitter's current API Status has not added any new details about the outage.
