TWITTER has confirmed some users may be experiencing an outage on its platform.
In a statement, Twitter Support said: “Tweets may not be loading for some of you. We’re working on fixing a problem and you’ll be back on the timeline soon.”
The outage follows a tumultuous start to the year in which the company permanently suspended then-US president Donald Trump’s account and expanded its use of warning labels to target misleading posts about coronavirus vaccines.
Twitter crashed in the early hours of this morning, leaving more than 40,000 users without access. Many reported tweets not loading and being unable to log into the app.
Users across Europe, the US, Mexico, South Africa and the Philippines were among those frozen out of their accounts.
While the Down Detector service shows these initial outages have been resolved, there are reports of people still being unable to log back into their Twitter accounts.
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