Twitter is DOWN! Thousands of users across the world are unable to access the social media platform

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Twitter is DOWN! Thousands of users across the world are unable to access the website or app version of the social media platform

  • Twitter is down across the world, leaving thousands unable to use the site
  • The outage appeared around 9:30am ET and has hit more than 40,000 people
  • The US, the UK and Japan appear to have the most issues with the site
  • The website and both apps for iOS and Android are not working properly 

By Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com

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 If you are having issues with Twitter, you are not the only one – more than 40,000 users across the world are experiencing problems with the social media platform.

The social media site is experiencing an outage that seems to be hitting the website and apps on both iOS and Android.

The outage appeared around 9:30am and is located in the US, the UK and Japan – other countries in Europe, Asia and South American are also reporting issues.

Many users have been met with an ‘error message’ when logging in, along with a blank news feed. 

If you are having issues with Twitter, you are not the only one. The social media site is experiencing an outage that seems to be hitting the website and apps on both iOS and Android

Typically when one social media site experiences an outage, users flock to Twitter to share their frustrations or ask if anyone else is having problems.

But with Twitter down, the world may be in a frenzy.

Down Detector, a platform that monitors website and online service outages, is one of the only places the public can go to check on the outage.

The outage report shows more than 48,000 people have reported issues with Twitter, which started flowing in around 9:30am ET.

The outage appeared around 9:30am and is located in the US, the UK and Japan - other countries in Europe, Asia and South American are also reporting issues. Many users have been met with an 'error message' when logging in, along with a blank news feed

The outage appeared around 9:30am and is located in the US, the UK and Japan – other countries in Europe, Asia and South American are also reporting issues. Many users have been met with an ‘error message’ when logging in, along with a blank news feed

Approximately 49 percent are experiencing issues with the website, 35 percent noted problems with Twitter on an iOS devices and 15 percent on the Android app.

Down Detector’s outage map shows a number of major cities in the US as red, including Seattle, San Francisco, Washington  DC and New York City.

Twitter has also gone down in Japan, parts of India and Indonesia.