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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Alice Peacock

Twitter down: Global outage as over 22,000 social media users report issues with site

Twitter users across the globe have been reporting issues accessing the social media platform.

According to Downdetector, issues on the social media platform started after 1pm for thousands of people.

Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources, showed close to 30,000 outages were reported globally.

Most reported issues were to do with the app, with those complaints making up 57 per cent of reports.

Website issues accounted for 37 per cent of reports while 6 per cent of complaints were related to users' feeds.

One user on Down Detector said it looked as though their login servers were down, as they got "immediately logged out" of the page.

Issues on the social media platform started after 1pm for thousands of people (Twitter)

"When you reload the login page, it says the page is down," they said.

“Something went wrong. Try reloading.” Yeah I’ve done that at least 50 times now," another user wrote.

Others hypothesized about whether Elon Musk may have anything to do with the outage.

"I wonder if they are updating the website to get rid of bots etc or maybe Elon Musk broke it," they wrote.

"Has Musk killed Twitter?" another asked.

Twitter on Tuesday sued Elon Musk today for violating the £36.5billion deal to buy the social media platform.

The tech company has asked a Delaware court to order the world's richest person to complete the merger at the agreed $54.20 per Twitter share, according to a court filing.

In a statement last Friday, the Tesla CEO sent a letter to the social media company’s board saying he was terminating the acquisition.

He had previously agreed to buy Twitter in April but declared that he intended to walk away from the deal last week.

He is also alleging that Twitter broke the acquisition agreement when it fired two top managers and laid off a third of its talent-acquisition team.

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