- By Vikas Yadav
- Sun, 16 Jul 2023 08:56 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
JE Technology Desk: Twitter is back after a brief outage. Thousands of users in India as '#TwitterDown' continues to trend at Fifth place (at 9:25 PM today) on the micro-blogging app with around 4,000 fresh tweets. According to Downdetector, an outage tracking website, the disruption peaked at around 7:50 PM with 600+ reports in India (and 2,700+ in the United States). Twitter has not issued an official statement on this officially.
(UPDATE: Twitter is back after the outage and is working fine.)
Among the affected users in the country, around 59 per cent are having issues with the app, 31 per cent are encountering problems with the website, and 10 per cent are facing server connection issues. The error message on the app reads: "Cannot retrieve Tweets at this time. Please try again later."
According to Mirror Now, the outage affected both Android and iOS users. This error did not let users access the timeline of the app. However, the outage reports in India (at 10:00 PM) declined to six and 50 disruption reports in the United States.
Users have been flocking to the microblogging platform to share hilarious reactions, which is gradually igniting a meme fest on the app. "Twitter being down today feels like the world telling us to go to space and actually interact with aliens," a user said.
Here are a few other fun responses:
1.
#TwitterDown
— Aparna (@AppeFizzz) July 16, 2023
Twitter every 3rd day of the weekpic.twitter.com/VuzwKkTvXx
2.
Twitter and Elon musk conversation be like#TwitterDown pic.twitter.com/EknieG6omB
— Abhishek (@be_mewadi) July 16, 2023
3.
I have come online after so many days... aor is Twitter ko aaj hi down hona tha.!!! 🙁😭#TwitterDown pic.twitter.com/ZQEpLB7kgN
— β€ ƗƗỮΜβŁ€ 💫 (@BeKind_Forever_) July 16, 2023
4.
Twitter every second day these times:#TwitterDown pic.twitter.com/42yRGuwzFL
— Himanshu Pareek (@Sports_Himanshu) July 16, 2023
5.
Me when I see that twitter is down again-#TwitterDown pic.twitter.com/teq4Gm2ZN8
— Lilyy⁷ ˢᵉᵛᵉⁿ ᵇʸ ʲᵏ🥢☁️ (@Lilyy_isPretty) July 16, 2023
This is the second time Twitter has witnessed a massive outage. The app also underwent service disruption on July 1 when users reported about 'Rate Limit Exceeded' prompt on the app. The next day Twitter owner Elon Musk announced the imposition of post reading limits for verified and unverified subscribers to restrict data scrapping by AI companies as a temporary measure.
Twitter Down Update: 11:10 PM
Outage reports have declined in India and the US, and the platform is stable. We were able to access the app without any problems. The 'TwitterDown' hashtag has also stopped trending on the app.