Twitter, Discord, Call of Duty, Roblox and others go DOWN in bizarre mass outage

A BIZARRE mass online outage knocked services including Twitter, Discord and Call of Duty offline this afternoon.

The disruption also affected Betfair, Wikipedia, Roblox, the PlayStation network and BBC iPlayer, according to outage tracker DownDetector.

Problems began around 3:30pm GMT (11:30am ET) on Tuesday and lasted for around half an hour, reports from affected users suggest.

They appear to have largely impacted the UK, with US web users unaffected. Services are now back online and working as normal.

Visitors to the affected sites reported on DownDetector that they could not load web pages.

It’s unclear what caused the issue, which hit dozens of major services.

Typically big outages across unconnected sites are the result of problems with a major server provider, such as Amazon Web Services.

Here is a list of some of the services affected, according to DownDetector:

The news follows issues suffered by Android users today with apps such as Gmail, Google Pay, Yahoo Mail and Google.

Apps on Samsung mobiles have reportedly been crashing and not opening since early this morning, with no fix in sight yet.

In other news, Twitter boss Jack Dorsey on Monday sold his first-ever tweet for more than $2.9million (£2.09million).

Elon Musk says Bitcoin is now better than real cash.

The PayPal founder’s fortune soared $15billion in a DAY in November due to the skyrocketing price of Tesla stock.

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