Twitter experienced an outage on Wednesday, with several users, including those in India, reporting problems refreshing their newsfeeds or posting new content. The service was restored after a brief interruption around 4 p.m. According to Downdetector, affected areas in India included major cities such as Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Nagpur, Lucknow, and Patna, among others.
Users in India reported that the Twitter homepage was not loading. The problem started around 4 p.m. Users claimed that the social media website did not allow them to refresh their feeds. Not only was the web version affected, but so was the Twitter app for iPhone and Android. According to Downdetector, 58% of users had issues with the mobile app, 37% with the desktop website, and 5% complained about the server connection. When connectivity was restored, many users flocked to the microblogging platform to express their feelings about the outage. Some people found humour in the situation and shared amusing memes.
Some users used the opportunity to mock Twitter’s new CEO, Elon Musk. Meanwhile, several Indian users reported that the network was only unavailable on Jio networks.
GLOBAL OUTAGE
The Internet Outages Map is a snapshot of global Internet health over the last 24 hours, displaying the frequency of Internet outages and service outages as reported by ISPs, public cloud and edge service networks, as well as top business SaaS and consumer application providers. In a subsequent update, Microsoft explained that the root cause of the global outage was a recent Wide Area Network (WAN) update. An internet outage, blackout, or shutdown is the complete or partial failure of internet services. It can happen due to censorship, cyberattacks, natural disasters, police or security service actions or errors.
A variety of factors could be affecting your internet connection. The first and most likely cause is equipment malfunction. Restarting your modem/router should fix the problem. Other reasons your internet may keep going out include inadequate speeds, network congestion and inclement weather. Because of the possibility of a massive solar storm, a global blackout of this magnitude is possible. Large solar flares and solar storms have the potential to disrupt the geomagnetic field of the Earth.
A production outage is defined as one or more system-wide issues in a live production environment that affect multiple users and prevent your business from performing daily operations.
