Twitter down: Users see error messages and get logged out amid major outage

Twitter has stopped working properly, with users being logged out and shown error messages.

The problems appeared differently for various users. Some were logged in but their feed would not load, while others could not get onto the site at all.

Error messages encouraged users to “try reloading”. But that did not appear to work.

Others told them to try logging out. That just meant they were unable to get back into the site.

In fact, there seemed to be no way of resolving the issue, which was present on all platforms.

Twitter does not run an official status page for normal users. It has a devoted page for its API – which is used by developers to create technology based on Twitter’s foundations – but that only showed “all systems operational”.

Twitter’s outage comes at a significant time for the company: it has just launched legal proceedings in an attempt to force Elon Musk to follow through on his attempt to buy it.