Twitter Users Freak Out After Social Media Platform Stops Working

 Twitter experienced a blackout and users across the world were unable to load tweets and many received messages saying “ something went wrong” the blackout evidently continued into Saturday morning.

The popular social media platform stopped working around 5 pm on Friday evening This is notably the second time the microblogging website is experiencing issues in barely 24 hours and worst-case scenario, logout errors on desktops.

This can’t be good. #TwitterDown pic.twitter.com/K9zQs1tojh

— Jonathan Franks (@jonfranks) April 17, 2021

“The term you entered did not bring up any results. Please try again later.” and “Cannot retrieve Tweets at this time. Please try again later.”

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According to tracking site DownDetector.com, user reports of problems at Twitter spiked just before 5 p.m. PT. More than 50,000 people had reported issues as of 5:03 p.m. PT, according to DownDetector, jumping to over 81,000 by 5:14 p.m.

During the disruption, Twitter profiles were still accessible in the app (and so were Fleets). While posts cached in the app were visible, users couldn’t like, retweet, or comment on them.

In October 2020, Twitter experienced technical issues that prevented users from tweeting. The company blamed the problems on an “inadvertent change to our systems.” That outage affected users' access across the U.S., Europe and other parts of the world.

As millions of users Googled the reason behind the outage, Twitter took some time to resolve the issue.

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Tweets may not be loading for some of you. We’re working on fixing a problem and you’ll be back on the timeline soon.

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) April 17, 2021

"Tweets may not be loading for some of you. We're working on fixing a problem and you'll be back on the timeline soon," Twitter Support posted on the social media platform.

Tweets may not be loading for some of you. We’re working on fixing a problem and you’ll be back on the timeline soon.

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) April 17, 2021

April 17, 2021— نبيل (@nabzszn)

Everyone running back to Twitter when it's back up #twitterdown pic.twitter.com/7R6a24lEmE