Twitter claims 'internal system error' caused global outage, netizens react

Twitter experienced a worldwide outage after a large number of users complained about not being able to use the microblogging site. 'Tens and thousands of users' were unable to post a tweet and the notification feeds were also unavailable. According to the monitoring site downdector.com, over 50,000 users registered their grievances from 5:15 pm EST to 6:30 pm EST. Following the investigation, Twitter claimed it was an 'internal system' error.

Twitter suffers outage

Every time a user tried to post a tweet an error showed up on the platform that read, "Oops, something went wrong!". Several Twitter users also reported that tweets were unavailable and the feeds could not be accesses of refreshed. Responding to the complaints, Twitter said that they are working on the issue while claiming that the massive Twitter outage was caused by 'an inadvertent change made to the internal systems'. They also assured the users that no evidence of a breach or hack has been found yet. 

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"The recent issue was caused by an inadvertent change we made to our internal systems. Twitter should be working for everyone within the next few hours," read the tweet by the official Twitter account.

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Netizens React

Users could not help but react to the reasons cited by Twitter for the outage. Responding to the tweet, users complained that their tweets have been deleted or have disappeared mysteriously while several others flooded the thread with interesting memes. Some people expressed concerns about a security breach or hack while suggesting that Twitter might be covering it up. There were also those who complained about how long it took for the microblogging platform to work again. 

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(With inputs from ANI)