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New Delhi: Twitter’s support account announced on Thursday that users may be experiencing issues with the platform without detailing the source of the error. Twitter Deck is down since 6am today Thursday. Due to which users are not able to login tweet deck. The company says that it is sorry for the inconvenience caused to the people. We’re aware and working to get this fixed.
Twitter may not be working as expected for some of you. Sorry for the trouble. We're aware and working to get this fixed.
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) February 8, 2023
Twitter boss Elon Musk on Wednesday told employees to pause feature development while fixing the bugs that surfaced. Musk emailed Twitter employees to please pause development of the new feature in favor of maximizing system stability and robustness, especially with the Super Bowl approaching, the report said.
According to a report, users started complaining about the site being down since Wednesday afternoon. People attempting to tweet received a message about exceeding the daily posting limit on the site. According to The Mirror, Internet crash tracking site DownDetector found that the number of users reporting problems with the microblogging site increased after 9.47 pm in the UK.
The hashtag ‘Twitter Down’ soon started trending and several users shared memes on the situation. While some were logged out of their accounts, other features such as direct messages, retweets and Twitter mobile were also not working for users across the world. Many suggested Twitter was ‘over capacity’ as people trying to follow an account also received a similar message about a ‘daily limit’.
twitter being down is unemployed people’s 9/11
— yasmin (@ycsm1n) February 8, 2023
Twitter Down Test | Scheduled tweet
You are over the daily limit for sending Tweets. pic.twitter.com/BeXUrRMhI8
— Adaire Mafunde (@elblu69420) February 8, 2023
BREAKING: Twitter is down globally. Twitter also has added a daily limit for sending Tweets. pic.twitter.com/RDbRCpnnDu
— t 🇮🇹 (@diamondswet999) February 8, 2023
According to outage tracking website Down detector, Meta Platforms Inc’s Facebook and Instagram were down for thousands of users in the United States on Wednesday. More than 12,000 Facebook users reported the mistakes and about 7,000 incidents were reported for Instagram. Users also reported problems with Messenger, Facebook’s online messaging service. DownDetector tracks outages by combining status reports from multiple sources, including user-submitted faults on its platform. Meta did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
