Twitter Global Outage Longest In Years
Several Twitter users were unable to access their accounts for almost an hour today, in an outage that was the longest in years for the social media company.
The service became unavailable at 4:25 AM IST, and lasted for about 45 minutes.
In Response, Twitter tweeted saying, “Some of you are having issues accessing Twitter and we’re working to get it back up and running for everyone. Thanks for sticking with us.”
Experts also suggested that considering the platforms importance in global politics and culture, a longer outage could have had an impact on the United Kingdom's Conservative party leadership election, which was announced post Boris Johnson's resignation last week.
The last longest outage came in 2016, when the service became unavailable to users for two and a half hours.
In its early days, Twitter was infamous for several such outages due to heavy load on its servers. However, since its growth, such outages have been sporadic and minimal.
