Twitter was hit with a worldwide outage that has left thousands frustrated just as the work week had begun.
The crash impacted the website, along with both Twitter’s iPhone and Android apps.
DownDetector showed the social media platform crashed around 10:30am ET and is hitting the US, UK, China and other parts of the world.
However, the outage in the US seemed to only plague users along the east coast and parts of the Midwest.
Twitter was hit with a worldwide outage that has left thousands frustrated just as the work week had begun.
Twitter is just one of the many social media platforms to crash in the last two weeks – Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp crashed just two weeks ago.
But the Twitter outage may be one of the most frustrating, as it hit Monday morning when many Americans were just starting their work day.
Boston, New York, Washington, Atlanta and Dallas were among the major cities shown in red on DownDetector’s outage map.
And following 30 minute the first report, DownDetector showed more than 16,000 Americans were affected by the crash.
Twitter has yet to address the outage.
DownDetector showd ethe social media platform crashed around 10:30am ET and is hitting the US, UK, China and other parts of the world
Some users were able to post on the social media platform, allowing them to share their frustrations about the crash with the world.
One Twitter users seemed unsurprised by the problems, saying the site has random crashes every week.
However, most users posted to the site to see if anyone else was experiencing issues.
Many social media platforms have crashed over the past few weeks.
Some users were able to share posts on the social media platform, allowing them to share their frustrations about the crash with the world. One Twitter users seemed unsurprised by the problems, saying the site has random crashes every week
Twitter is usually where users flock to share a social media platform is down
All of the Facebook-owned apps went down March 19 for more than an hour.
Users visiting Instagram online were shown a simple error message saying ‘5xx Server Error’, with no other information provided.
Some Facebook users were able to sign in to the app, although 63 percent of reports on DownDetector.com suggested there was a ‘total blackout’.
The triple outage lasted for about one hour, but Instagram nor Facebook have addressed the recent crash.
And then on March 26, Instagram was hit with another outage.
The social media app crashed around 3pm ET, with many users reporting issues with their News Feed and problems with logging into accounts.
The outage hit a number of major US including New York, Seattle and San Francisco, along with other across the globe, like the UK, China and Australia.
However, most users posted to the site to see if anyone else was experiencing issues
The outage hit around 10:30am ET, leaving thousands unable to use the platform on a Monday morning
However, Twitter seems to rarely have issues – except for an October 15 event that derailed more than 50,000 accounts.
The social media giant went down for several hours for thousands of users across the globe soon, leaving them unable to share tweets, see notifications or refresh the News Feed.
More than 50,000 users worldwide reported issues soon after 5p.m. E.T. on Down Detector, which monitors websites and online services.
By 11:30 p.m. Twitter announced the problem had been resolved and it was in the ‘all clear’ with all systems now ‘operational’ again.
