Twitter is down as tens of thousands of users struggle to access website and app

Twitter is reportedly down this afternoon as tens of thousands of users struggle to get on the website.

More than 28,000 reports of outages on the social media platform have been registered on the website DownDetector at around 1pm this afternoon.

Around 57 per cent of people say they cannot access the app, while 38 per cent are struggling to access the website.