Twitter is DOWN! Thousands are are unable to see tweets and are shown a ‘Twitter is over capacity’ message when logging into the platform
- Twitter has gone down for parts of the US, Europe and Japan
- The biggest issue seems to be that the site is not loading properly
- Some users said they were shown a ‘Twitter is over capacity’ message
If you are experiencing problems with Twitter, you are not alone.
Reports about issues with the social media site are flooding the internet with many saying tweets and the home page are not loading.
Some users are also seeing the error message ‘Twitter is over capacity.’
The outage seems to be affecting parts of the US, Europe and Japan, all of which appear to have begun around 10 AM ET.
If you are experiencing problems with Twitter, you are not alone. Northern Europe and the east coast states in the US are experiencing issues, while all Japan appears to be down
Thousands of reports have been posted to Downdector Monday morning, while some said that the website was not opening, others said they were unable to share any tweets.
Approximately 52 percent of the reports highlight problems with the website, 33 percent with the iOS app and 13 percent of users are experiencing issues in the Android app.
Northern Europe and the east coast states in the US are experiencing issues, while all Japan appears to be down.
It is not clear how long the outage will last, but the reports are still flooding in to Downdector as of this writing.
Thousands of reports have been posted to Downdector Monday morning, while some said that the website was not opening, others said they were unable to share any tweets
Reports about issues with the social media site are flooding the internet with many saying tweets and the home page are not loading. Some users are also seeing the error message ‘Twitter is over capacity.
Although outages are common, now is a time billions of people around the world are using them to cope with coronavirus lockdowns.
And when there are issues, the world goes into a frenzy.
Earlier this month all of Facebook’s services like Instagram and WhatsApp, went down – creating a panic across the glove.
According to Downdetector.com, Instagram experienced the most widespread outages with users across the US and Europe as well as some in South America reporting being unable to load news feeds and stories.
Many users say that their tweets are not loading on the platform
Some users do not want to believe Twitter is down and hoped it was just an issue with their internet service
By 5pm ET, more than 28,000 reports had flooded Downdetector.
The issues were mostly resolved by 6:30pm ET, according to Downdetector, although reports continued to trail in for another couple of hours.
The majority of Facebook users reported being unable to see pictures while others said their newsfeeds weren’t loading.
WhatsApp reports indicate that many users were unable connect with the service or were unable to receive or send messages.
Users are flocking to Twitter to share they are having issues with the app to see if others are experiencing problems as well
This Twitter user shared his frustrations that the social media site is ‘borderline unusable’
As of 6pm Facebook’s services started to be restored.
A Facebook spokesperson declined to specify the nature of the outage, stating only that it was a ‘network error.’
The spokesperson said that the network issue was not related to higher than usual internet usage – an influx that has caused other services to experience similarly widespread outages.
The spokesperson declined to specify the nature of the ‘network error’ and stated that the company didn’t ‘typically [go] into that level of detail’ on such matters.