Twitter ‘down’ – app ‘not working’ just hours after 4,000 character limit turned on for tweets
TWITTER appeared to crash in a major outage on Wednesday, with users reporting their frustration.
Thousands of users logged complaints about the app not working – hours after the character limit for tweets was extended to 4,000 for some users.
Reports of website and app failure flooded in to online outage tracker Down Detector on Wednesday.
The bulk of users reported problems with the website, although around a third of complaints were linked to the app.
It's currently unclear what has caused the Twitter outage.
But the app appeared to stop working just hours after it began allowing Twitter Blue users to post 4,000-character tweets for the first time.
Musk later wrote on his platform: "Multiple internal and external issues simultaneously today.
"Should be fully back on track later tonight."
In a bizarre coincidence, the Twitter issues came just minutes after a large Facebook and Instagram outage.
The three apps are used by billions of users, but all went down in mysterious circumstances.
YouTube was next to fall, seeing users complain of server issues shortly before 7pm ET.
Some users are still able to access Twitter, while others are totally unable to access the social media site.
One Down Detector user wrote: "Both web and mobile are down. Elon needs to quit unplugging the servers lol."
Another said: "Twitter follower limit reached, and DMs are gone. I can't follow back, nor message anyone."
And one frustrated user wrote: "Tweets, RTs, DMs and QRTs not sending or being received."
Several users reported receiving a message stating that they had reached the daily limit for sending tweets.
Direct messages also appear to be broken for some users.
The official Twitter API Status page says that all systems are operational.
But it's clear that there is a major issue ongoing at Twitter.
The US Sun is experiencing difficulties accessing Twitter as part of the outage.
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It appears to be a global problem, including large outages in the US and UK.
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