Other folks had been having hassle sending tweets on Friday.
Angela Lang/CNETTwitter skilled an outage Friday afternoon, with customers around the globe complaining of now not with the ability to ship tweets. Down Detector recorded a spike in proceedings about Twitter’s services and products from simply after 1:00 p.m. PT. As of one:40 p.m., there have been greater than 11,00zero proceedings.
Looking to tweet on desktop or cellular app led to a “tweet now not despatched” error message. “We are sorry, we were not ready to ship your tweet,” it mentioned. “Do you want to retry or save this tweet in drafts?”
Error messages had been served up at the desktop website and on Tweetdeck, in addition to at the Android and iOS apps. From time to time tweets could be despatched on the second one check out; for others, it could say the tweet have been despatched, however then it failed to turn up. Scheduling tweets seems to paintings.
“Tweeting is damaged,” Patrick Traughber of Twitter’s client merchandise trade posted at 1:30 p.m. “We are operating on solving it.”
Twitter Give a boost to additionally tweeted about the problem.
“You may well be experiencing hassle sending new tweets, however we are operating on solving this now,” it tweeted at 1:48 p.m. “Sorry for the interruption and we will assist you to know when issues are again to customary.”
The social media website got here again on-line as of two:07 p.m. “You’ll get again to Tweeting — this drawback has been fastened! Thank you for sticking with us thru that.”
Twitter did not instantly reply to a request for remark, or give element on what brought about the outage.
At the start revealed Feb. 7, 1:49 p.m. PT.
Replace, 1:54 p.m.: Provides tweet from Twitter Give a boost to; 2:10 p.m.: Twitter is again up once more.
