Summary
- Social media platform Twitter suffered an outage on Sunday, with users across the globe finding they were unable to log on to the service.
- Reports of the outage first appeared on Downdetector and Reddit, before being confirmed by NetBlocks, which monitors internet disruptions.
- It marked the second time in a week that the service had suffered a major international outage.
- At the same time, some users have reported issues with the platform for several days.
- The incident comes shortly after a fire at one of Twitter’s data centres in Oregon, which was reportedly caused by lithium-ion batteries.
- The company has not made a statement regarding the cause of the outage or when the issue is expected to be resolved.
By Wes Davis
Original Article