Social media platform Twitter was down for thousands of users across the globe on Thursday, its first such outage since February, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
The outage comes days after Twitter sued Elon Musk for violating his $44 billion deal to buy the company and asked a Delaware court to order the world’s richest person to complete the takeover.
The outage began around 8:00 ET and prevented users from logging into the micro-blogging site on desktops and mobile phones.
It was not clear what caused the outage. Users were getting an error message: “Tweets aren’t loading right now.” Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but its status dashboard indicated that all systems were operational.
The company had suffered another widespread outage in February that it blamed on a software glitch
Twitter shares were marginally down at $36.60 before the bell on Thursday.
Users have since taken to the platform since it came back up to make light of the outage with different memes.
Me thinking my account got suspended but finding out twitter was down #TwitterDown pic.twitter.com/r2GsYNy4UC
— ???????????????????????? (@Weahawks) July 14, 2022
Me to Twitter after refreshing my phone 3 times and reinstalling Twitter 2 times.#TwitterDown pic.twitter.com/pVzxgC53tq
— Mr bean (@arooj_baba) July 14, 2022
Me coming to Twitter to tweet #Twitterdown but then realising it’s
#Twitterdown pic.twitter.com/k1dze2CIal— Isa???????? (@daya_zen7) July 14, 2022
Twitter is down.
Literally everyone right now:#TwitterDown pic.twitter.com/QhhK6LigkB— Fablord (@fablord) July 14, 2022
where do i complain about twitter being down when twitter is down!? #twitterdown pic.twitter.com/r57IzZEiEn
— Seddera Side (@sedderaside) July 14, 2022
Everyone on their way back from Instagram because Twitter was down. #TwitterDown pic.twitter.com/rLZoey85hN
— NUFF (@nuffsaidny) July 14, 2022
Twitter watching me search “ is Twitter down ” in the search bar #TwitterDown ???? pic.twitter.com/nA4kGRJ5Lx
— ???? (@_ItsMeBB_) July 14, 2022
Everyone coming back to Twitter every 5 minutes to see if it’s still down ????????#Twitter #TwitterDown pic.twitter.com/1JXbQvvvsr
— PELS YEAR. BBN (@pelsyear) July 14, 2022
Me apologizing to my internet after blaming it for twitter being down: pic.twitter.com/6tuKOWWPjD
— Hemant (@Sportscasmm) July 14, 2022
Twitter is down
Facebook headquarters;#TwitterDown pic.twitter.com/tPSBMMBuZ3
— Lord Abraham Mutai (@ItsMutai) July 14, 2022
When Twitter is down and you can’t go on Twitter to find out if it’s down cos it’s down ???????? #TwitterDown pic.twitter.com/qUJIQrTeEs
— Leighanne???? ⚯͛ △⃒⃘???????????? (@TinyPurplePug) July 14, 2022
