NEW DELHI: Microblogging site Twitter faced outage on Wednesday with several users, including those in India, reporting issues with refreshing their newsfeed or posting new content on the website. The service, which went down around 4 pm, resumed after a short while.
According to the outage monitoring website Downdetector, affected regions in India included major cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Nagpur, Lucknow and Patna among others.
Users in India complained about the Twitter homepage being unable to load. The issue began around 4 pm and users claimed that the social media website was not allowing users to refresh their feeds. Issues were reflected not only on the web version, but also on the Twitter app for iPhone and Android.
As many as 58 per cent of users had problems with the mobile app while 37 per cent had issues with the desktop website, with the remaining 5 per cent complaining about the server connection, as per Downdetector.
After connectivity was restored, many users swarmed the microblogging platform to share their thoughts on the outage. Some found humour in the situation and shared hilarious memes.
https://twitter.com/Alexisyn_/status/1630912505190006788
https://twitter.com/tahaactually/status/1630910269428842499
https://twitter.com/sukoon1111/status/1630912046383632385
Some users took the opportunity to troll the new Twitter CEO Elon Musk.
https://twitter.com/BoiesX45/status/1630912904534052864
https://twitter.com/ChekrishnaCk/status/1630911210664390657
Meanwhile, several Indian users noted that the network went down only on Jio networks. (ANI)