Twitter is experiencing a broad outages of its services, the social media site said Thursday, saying on its official status page that the problem is due to an internal configuration change that is now being fixed.
“Some people may be able to access Twitter again and we’re working to make sure Twitter is available to everyone as quickly as possible,” it wrote in its update.
The side DownDetector reported the issues began just before 3 PM ET impacting Twitter’s website and Android and iPad apps. Most queries on the social media platform were resulting in an error page for users all over the world.
It’s the second notable outage for Twitter this month. The platform experienced temporary outages relating to DM delivery and notifications on July 3, the same day Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users saw those services down for most of the day.
Todaay’s outage comes the same day President Donald Trump is hosting a Social Media Summit at the White House that does not include the biggest social media networks including Twitter. The gathering is mostly of conservative influencers Trump follows who have complained that they are consistently marginalized on the major platforms.
Twitter is back up for some people, and we're working to make sure our service is available to everyone as quickly as possible. The interruption was due to an internal system change, which we're now fixing. We’re sorry for the inconvenience and should be at 100% soon. https://t.co/HXOiFVbgPK
— Support (@Support) July 11, 2019
After an outage of a little over an hour, we regret to inform you that Twitter appears to be coming back online. A spokesman blamed the issue on “an internal configuration change.”
https://t.co/AuDjdznxOr
The outage was due to an internal configuration change, which we're now fixing. Some people may be able to access Twitter again and we're working to make sure Twitter is available to everyone as quickly as possible.— Brandon (@bborrman) July 11, 2019
