© Reuters. Figures with smartphones and computers in front of the Twitter logo in this illustration, November 28, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
(Reuters) – Thousands of Twitter users were unable to access the social media platform on Wednesday, according to outage monitoring website Downdetector.com.
More than 8,000 users reported problems with the microblogging site in the United States, Downdetector said.
Downdetector keeps track of outages by collecting status reports from a number of sources, including user-submitted bugs on your platform. The outages could have affected a larger number of users.
Twitter Inc. (NYSE:) did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment and the social network’s status page showed that all systems were operational.
Twitter, which was acquired by billionaire Elon Musk in a $44 billion acquisition last year, suffered a major outage in December, leaving tens of thousands of users around the world unable to access the platform or use its key functions for several hours before services appeared to return. online.
Another blackout earlier this month affected nearly 9,000 users.
