Twitter is experiencing a worldwide outage that is impacting tens of thousands of users – another blow for Elon Musk, who is battling Meta over its newly launched Threads.
DownDetector, which monitors online issues, began to receive issue reports around 10:22 am ET, with most stating problems with the app.
Users took the occasion to make fun of Musk’s platform, saying, ‘Time to head to Threads,’ which Mark Zuckerberg launched last week that already has 100 million users.
Twitter disclosed it has 237.8 million.
Twitter is experiencing a worldwide outage that is impacting tens of thousands of users
Twitter is still functioning for some users who are sharing their frustrations with certain features not working.
Many have shared that their tweets are not loading and Timelines are not updating.
It is unclear what sparked the outage or how long it will last.
DownDetector’s US outage map shows New York City all in red- meaning it is hit hard – followed by Boston, Dallas and other major cities nationwide.
At the peak, more than 6,000 Americans issued reports to DownDetector.
Countries like Italy, China, the UK and other parts of Europe are also experiencing problems.
The outage comes nearly one week since Zuckerberg launched Threads, which is deemed ‘a Twitter-killer app.’
Experts have told DailyMail.com that the explosion in popularity highlights how Threads poses a ‘serious threat’ to Musk’s social network, which has been in turmoil since the Tesla boss took over.
Between March 2022 and March 2023, monthly active users of Twitter fell 15 percent on iOS and 14 percent on Android in the US, according to SimilarWeb.
Users took the occasion to make fun of Musk’s platform, saying, ‘Time to head to Threads,’ which Mark Zuckerberg launched last week that already has 100 million users
Twitter is still functioning for some users who are sharing their frustrations with certain features not working
The drop came in the wake of chaotic decision-making and rapid changes at Twitter in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover of the app.
Gizmodo editor-in-chief Dan Ackerman told ABC News: ‘I think people have been looking for an alternative that is kind of Twitter-like but without some of the toxic atmosphere that you have on Twitter now.’
Twitter did not take the Thread launch lying down – on July 6 the company threatened to file a lawsuit, accusing Meta of poaching former employees to create a ‘copycat’ app.
‘Twitter has serious concerns that Meta Platforms (Meta’) has engaged in systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property,’ Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro wrote in a letter released Thursday.
‘Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information.
Spiro accused Meta of hiring dozens of former Twitter employees who ‘had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information.’
He also claimed Meta assigned those staffers to create ‘copycat ‘Threads’ with the intent to use Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property in order to further the development of Twitter’s competitor.
‘Meta is expressly prohibited from engaging in any crawling or scraping of Twitter’s followers or following data. As set forth in Twitter’s Terms of Service, crawling any Twitter services,’ the letter stated.
The letter alleged the app is in violation of both state and federal law as well as those employees ‘ongoing obligations to Twitter.’
