NEW DELHI : Microblogging platform Twitter suffered a quick outage throughout a number of international locations together with India on Thursday as a number of customers couldn’t log in to the app, entry their feed, or publish tweets. Many customers obtained alerts equivalent to “503 Service Unavailable” once they tried to entry Twitter. This alert often reveals when servers are briefly unable to deal with requests.
Round 397 customers reported disruption of service on Twitter between 5.16 pm and 5.31 pm IST on Downdetector, the web platform that gives real-time data on web site outages.
In keeping with Downdetector, in India, the outage was reported in main cities equivalent to New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Ahmedabad, and Hyderabad. Round 70% of the outages had been on the desktop whereas 29% had been reported by app customers.
“A few of you’re having points accessing Twitter and we’re working to get it again up and operating for everybody. Thanks for sticking with us,” mentioned Twitter.
That is the second world outage involving Twitter this 12 months. In February, the social community was reportedly down for nearly 60 minutes. Twitter had then mentioned that the outage was attributable to a “technical bug” that disrupted timelines from loading and tweets from getting posted.
India is the third-largest marketplace for Twitter after the US and Japan, in keeping with market analysis agency Statista. It had 23.6 million month-to-month lively customers (MAU) in India as of January 2022, whereas US and Japan had 76.9 million and 58 million customers, respectively.
Twitter is presently concerned in a authorized dispute with Tesla CEO Elon Musk after he determined to again out from the $44 billion deal to accumulate it after it failed to offer data on the precise variety of bot customers on the platform. Twitter has sued Musk for violating the deal.
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