Twitter Outage: Twitter services restored

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Twitter went down for about 40-45 minutes on Thursday morning. This was the longest global outage since 2016 [{ "selector": ".skjst-a", "duration": "500ms", "fill": "forwards", "delay": "1000ms", "keyframes": [ {"offset": 0, "opacity": 0}, {"offset": 1, "opacity": "1"} ] }, { "selector": ".gfdkr-a", "duration": "500ms", "fill": "forwards", "delay": "1500ms", "keyframes": [ {"offset": 0, "opacity": 0}, {"offset": 1, "opacity": "1"} ] }]

The outage affected the entire ecosystem including mobile and web. The error message was shown as "over capacity". Many users were not able to operate Twitter smoothly.

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The failure appears to have been global, with outages reported around the world. The UK, US and Europe are affected badly by the outage.

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The last major outage was experienced in 2016 when the Twitter website was down for about 2 hours. There's been no official statement yet on what may have caused this outage.

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Twitter suffered it's one of the major outages due to a software glitch in February 2016.

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Twitter outages were common in its early days but as the platform grew the problems became less common.

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It was unclear whether Twitter was back online for all the users.

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