On Wednesday, Twitter Inc suffered a major outage, causing tens of thousands of users globally to not able to access the popular social media platform or use its key features for several hours before services appeared to come back online.
The incident is the social media site’s first apparent widespread service disruption since billionaire Elon Musk acquired Twitter as CEO in late October.
A website that tracks outages through a range of sources including user reports, Downdetector, showed more than 10,000 affected users from the United States, about 2,500 from Japan and about 2,500 from the UK at the peak of the disruption.
Majority of the reports came from users stating they faced technical issues accessing the social network via web browser.
By Wednesday evening, reports of Twitter outages fell sharply evening, according to the website, with some users later commenting service had returned to normal.
