Twitter says loading issues fixed after users send in 35,000 complaints at peak
The Hindu
More than 27,000 users had reported outage of the service, according to Downdetector.com
Twitter Inc said on Tuesday it had fixed issues after thousands of users reported that they were having trouble accessing the micro-blogging platform.
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More than 27,000 users had reported outage of the service, according to Downdetector.com, a website which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.
The outage started at 1.50 p.m. ET and had as many as 35,000 reports at its peak.
"We fixed it! We made an internal systems change that didn't go as planned and have rolled it back. Twitter should now be loading as expected. Sorry about that!," Twitter said in a tweet.
This was the second outage in as may months.
The social media company is in a legal tussle with Tesla boss Elon Musk over his $44 billion takeover deal.