Twitter services are back up and running after a brief outage

Twitter went down today for a brief time, leaving users high and dry. The outage began at around 5.20 pm but the initial reports were fewer in number, as compared to half an hour later when the reports spiked to more than 55,000 globally. In India, meanwhile, as many as 514 reports were flagged on Downdetector, an outage watchdog.

The outage did not, however, impact all the services on Twitter. For me, features such as adding an existing account and refreshing the timeline were not working, while tweets of an individual account were intermittently loading. Tweetdeck, which is Twitter’s real-time tweet tracking tool, also went down at the same time. Not only did it kick me out of my account, but it refused to let me back in while the outage was at its peak.

Developing…

The post Twitter services are back up and running after a brief outage appeared first on BGR India.