Users on the micro-blogging site saw an alert saying
“Something went wrong. Try reloading." Twitter also acknowledged the issues.
More than 6,000 user reports indicated issues with Twitter
as of 9:40 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time (0140 GMT Thursday), about 93% of those being
related to its website, according to Downdetector. That number came down to
less than 70 user reports in a little over two hours.
Twitter did not specify what had caused the outage but
acknowledged that profile tweets were not loading for some web users and that
they worked on a fix.
Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from
a series of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform.
Twitter had faced a similar outage in April, when over
40,000 users had reported that the micro-blogging site was down. While the
issue today was fixed in a matter of minutes, in April, it took Twitter over 24
hours to fix the outage issue.