Twitter is back online after an hour-long crash that impacted the social media network’s website and app
- Twitter was down for about one-hour on Monday starting around 12:30pm ET
- Many users said tweets are not refreshing or they are being kicked out of their accounts and forced to log back in
- It is not clear what caused the crash or the exact number of users impacted
Twitter is back online after being down for thousands of users worldwide who had issues with the website, app and logging in.
Problems began around 12:50pm ET on Monday and were impacting some users in the U.S., the U.K., New Zealand and other countries – but the crash appeared to be fixed around 1:30pm ET.
Many users said tweets are not refreshing or they are being kicked out of their accounts and forced to log back in.
It is not clear what caused the crash or the exact number of users impacted.
Twitter is down for thousands of users worldwide who report issues with the website, app and logging into accounts
DownDetector, a website that monitors online outages, showed a spike in issue reports just after 12:30pm ET.
By 12:52pm ET, more than 3,000 users in the U.S. had reported problems with the social media network and around the same time, some 1,800 users in the UK also reported issues to DownDetector.
It is not uncommon for social media platforms to crash, but the last time Twitter was down was October 4, over a month ago.
Other social media platforms, specifically those owned by Meta – Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, have experienced outages every few weeks lately.
Problems began around 12:50pm ET on Monday and are impacting some users in the US, the UK, New Zealand and other countries
Many users say tweets are not refreshing or they are being kicked out of their accounts and forced to log back in
Users are able to send some tweets amid the outage
The latest was just on November 3.
Twitter’s Monday outage, however, seemed to be as choppy as Twitter’s service was only impacted in some regions.
The social media network announced Friday that it is rolling out a new search button on some accounts that allows users to more easily scan through a specific person’s past tweets.
One user is frustrated that without Twitter they have nowhere to complain about the outage
The social media network announced Friday that it is rolling out a new search button on some accounts that allows users to more easily scan through a specific person’s past tweets
The button, located in the top right corner next to the 3-dot (or hamburger) menu, had started appearing for a small number of users in October.
It is now rolling out more widely on the iOS Twitter app, XDA Developers reported.
The button is the latest in a long series of new features Twitter has added to its platform in the past few months, many of which are related to privacy.
In October it fully launched a new feature on its web version that lets users remove a follower without blocking them.
The option prevents a chosen user from seeing any of a person’s future posts or know they’ve been removed.