Twitter may have returned after reportedly experiencing an outage that started around 5:30 p.m. Thursday, according to user-generated reports on downdetector.com. The outage appeared to affect parts of the East, the Midwest and the West United States, according to the website’s map. Outages were reported globally, too.
The Verge reported some tweets have started to come through after 7 p.m., so things could be returning to normal.
“Twitter has been down for many of you and we’re working to get it back up and running for everyone," the company said in a tweet from its support page. “We had some trouble with our internal systems and don’t have any evidence of a security breach or hack.”
Twitter has been down for many of you and we’re working to get it back up and running for everyone.
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) October 15, 2020
We had some trouble with our internal systems and don’t have any evidence of a security breach or hack.
“Twitter, are you back? Where were you?” Fast Company Tech Editor Harry McCracken tweeted at 7:04 p.m.
“what did u miss us or something,” Twitter replied from its communications handle shortly after.
what did u miss us or something
— Twitter Comms (@TwitterComms) October 15, 2020
Twitter’s last major outage reportedly occurred in February, but users circumvented that outage by scheduling tweets.
A notice posted on Twitter’s status page at 5:56 p.m. said the company was “Investigating Irregularity with Twitter APIs,” Variety reported at the time of Thursday’s outage.
“We know people are having trouble tweeting and using Twitter,” a company rep told Variety at the time of the outage. “We’re working to fix this issue as quickly as possible. We’ll share more when we have it and tweet from @TwitterSupport when we can – stay tuned.”
