Twitter Returns After Two-Hour Outage Affecting Tweets

On Wednesday, Twitter experienced a service disruption that resulted in users being unable to access certain parts of the platform, specifically the “Following” and “For you” feed. These feeds displayed an error message rather than the expected content. 

The problem was widespread and affected users globally. The issue persisted for approximately two hours before being resolved by Twitter’s engineering team. 

DownDetector, a website that tracks service outages, reported issues with Twitter at 10:00 GMT, but the problem was resolved by 12:00. In the UK alone, over 5,000 users reported problems to DownDetector within half an hour of the Twitter service outage. 

The root cause of the outage is still unknown, and it is unclear if Twitter’s recent 200 staff layoffs on Monday played any role in the incident. Further investigation is needed to identify the underlying cause of the outage and prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future. 

Even though some parts of Twitter, like the feeds, were not working, users could still send tweets as usual. However, no one could see or interact with those tweets. This caused top trending hashtags including “#TwitterDown” and “Welcome To Twitter”.

Nevertheless, Twitter has had some temporary problems in the past few months. During a sho

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