Twitter down updates – Thousands of users report issues with website and app in latest outage
THOUSANDS of Twitter users reported issues with both the website and the app on Saturday afternoon.
Reports started coming in that users were experiencing issues from around 12.20pm UK time, according to .
Reacting to the issues, one social media user wrote: ''IS TWITTER DOWN?!''
While a second said: ''huh? Twitter is down or something is wrong with my account?''
Owner Elon Musk announced that users may not be able to see posts due to a new rate limits feature.
Reports began dropping around 8pm UK time.
Follow our Twitter live blog for more news and updates on the outage...
Where are Twitter users experiencing problems?
Twitter users still experiencing issues
4,051 Twitter users in the UK were reporting issues with the social media platform at 3.10pm.
5,881 users in the US were reporting problems at 3.12pm.
So, the troubles are being experienced worldwide at the moment.
What is Twitter?
Twitter is a microblog which allows users to publish short messages of 280 characters of less.
Twitter users are able to post their tweets from from numerous devices and platforms, including the iPhone, Android, Blackberry, or Windows Phone devices and traditional computers.
Users in the UK are currently experiencing problems when using the social media platform.
Twitter outages in the past 24 hours
This graphic shows how many people have reported issues with Twitter over the past 24 hours.
There were 3,195 reports at 2.06pm in the UK.
Is Twitter down?
On July 1 there was a surge in reported cases of Twitter being down.
The DownDetector site picked up on more than 2,000 complaints.
Though it's not exactly clear what the full extent of the outage is.
It's also not known whether the issues are widespread or limited to some users.
Origins of Twitter
Twitter, Inc is a social media firm based in San Francisco, California, is called. The business runs the social networking and microblogging platform Twitter.
It has previously run the Periscope live streaming platform and the Vine short video app.
Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams founded Twitter in March 2006, and it went live in July of the same year.
By 2012, the service was handling an average of 1.6billion search queries daily, with more than 100million users posting 340million tweets each day.
In November 2013, the business went public. By 2019, there were more than 330million active monthly users on Twitter.
Other ways to check if Twitter is down
Users can also check to see if others are experiencing similar issues with the app and website.
Another way is by checking Twitter's own .
Twitter users report issues
Twitter users have rushed to DownDetector to report the issues they are currently experiencing.
One user said: ''Can't see any tweets on my timeline as it keeps saying it can't retrieve tweets! This is ridiculous, please fix it! Thank you.''
While a second added: ''Twitters completely down.''
How to check if Twitter is down
Anyone who wants to check if their Twitter account is fully operating should first try to log into their account.
If the message: "This page is down. I scream... You scream... We all scream... for us to fix this page. We'll stop making jokes and get things up and running soon" appears, then the site is down for you.
Reports rising
As of 1.30pm, over 2,000 users have reported issues with Twitter to DownDetector.
46% have reported experiencing issues with the website, while 42% report problems with the app.
Social media users experiencing issues
Twitter users are reporting issues with both the site and the app.
One wrote: ''HELP IS TWITTER DOWN?''
A second said: ''App doesn't seem to be working at the moment. Website doing slightly better. #TwitterDown.''
Thousands of users report issues with website and app in latest outage
Thousands of Twitter users are reporting issues with both the website and the app.
Reports started coming in that users were experiencing issues this afternoon, according to Downdetector.
Reacting to the issues, one social media user wrote: ''IS TWITTER DOWN?!''
While a second said: ''huh? Twitter is down or something is wrong with my account?''
Over 2,000 users are currently reporting issues.