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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Alex Hern UK technology editor

Twitter down for more than an hour around world

Twitter logo is displayed on a mobile phone screen.
Beginning about 10:20am UK time, visitors to Twitter.com were greeted with error messages. Photograph: Idrees Abbas/Sopa Images/Rex/Shutterstock

Twitter was unavailable for users around the world for over an hour on Wednesday morning, the latest in a spate of technical difficulties suffered by the site since its takeover by Elon Musk.

Beginning at about 10:20am UK time, visitors to Twitter.com were greeted with error messages. Although the total outage was rapidly fixed, the site remained in effect nonfunctional until well into the afternoon, with users unable to access their “home” feed, despite notifications, profile visits and direct messages still working.

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