Twitter is experiencing an outage that began in the early evening on Thursday, with some users reporting problems sending tweets and refreshing their timelines starting shortly after 5:30PM ET. We have seen no new tweets cross our timelines since then, though we were able to find a tweet sent as late as 5:40PM ET using Twitter’s search tool.
User-generated reports on Downdetector.com are skyrocketing as well, but there’s no communication from the company itself as to the nature of the outrage. Twitter’s last major outage, occurring in February of this year, still allowed users to circumvent that outage by scheduling tweets. This does not appear to be a useable workaround right now.
Verge staffers are seeing the outage across the United States and in the UK, though we have been able to send a few DMs through the platform.
Twitter’s API status website initially said everything is operational. At 5:56PM ET, Twitter posted a message to the API page reading, “Investigating — We are currently investigating this issue. More updates to come.” At 6:31PM ET, there was a new but also unspecific message: “We are continuing to monitor as our teams investigate. More updates to come.”
Here’s Twitter’s statement as of 6:17PM ET:
We know people are having trouble Tweeting and using Twitter. We’re working to fix this issue as quickly as possible. We’ll share more when we have it and Tweet from @TwitterSupport when we can – stay tuned.
Update 6:54PM ET: Added new update from Twitter’s API page and changed headline to say that the outage has lasted for more than an hour.
Update 6:28PM ET: Added Twitter statement.
Update 6:11PM ET: Added an update detailing the note on Twitter’s API page.
