Is Twitter down? Why can’t I tweet? Twitter outage continues

The Twitter social network seems to be down.

Users are reporting that the service does not load in a web browser and the Down Detector website has posted a massive spike in complaints.

It’s not yet known why Twitter is down, but those already logged in get an error message when trying to load new tweets, while those opening the page are kicked back to the login screen.

The same is true on mobile, with the Twitter app just stating that “tweets aren’t loading right now”.

We’ll update when we have more information on the outage.

Twitter has been in the news recently as Elon Musk pulled out