Twitter went down this afternoon for at least tens of thousands of users around the world.
After about half an hour, the social network appeared to be returning for some users.
Thousands of people in the UK and the United States complained to the web monitoring service Down Detector.
There had been 29,266 complaints by 1.30pm UK time, and 54,994 in the United States.
When loading the site, the page displayed an error sign and asked users to try again.
Most reported problems were to do with accessing the Twitter app and website.
Soon after it began to return.
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This is the first major Twitter outage since problems in the US in February.
This is the first major Twitter outage since a series of problems for the social network in February. Twitter was down twice in a week in February, with users unable to access the service in parts of the US due to a “technical bug that was preventing timelines from loading and Tweets from posting.”
On October 4, 2021, Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp became unavailable for a period of six to seven hours.
The outage was caused by the loss of IP routes to the Facebook servers.
On Saturday Elon Musk pulled out of a deal to take over Twitter for $44bn (£36.5bn).
