Twitter outage: what happened, when will service be restored, and more

If you're trying to Tweet and you're getting errors that keep you from engaging with the Internet's public square, you're not alone. Thousands of users from across the world are reporting that they can't access Twitter right now, many of us at TechRadar included.

We still don't know what's happened yet, but we're bringing you the latest on what is going on and when we can expect to get service restored.

Twitter is down across the world right now and we're busy digging into what has caused the widespread outage affecting at least the US and UK.

A screenshot of the status of Twitter online services showing a spike in reported outages in the thousands

(Image credit: DownDetector)

According to Downdetector, as many as 9,449 reports of Twitter error came in around 5PM EST. Many users were getting errors saying that they've reached their daily limits for tweets, something we can confirm. 

A screenshot of an attempted tweet giving an error

(Image credit: Future)

The problem seems to extent to both the Twitter mobile app as well as desktop users, and it is affecting retweets and DMs as well.

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The hashtag #TwitterDown saw a similar spike on Twitter itself, indicating that at least some people were able to tweet through it.



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