Twitter goes down with users unable to view tweetson March 1, 2023 at 11:55 am

- Advertisement -
- Advertisement -
- Advertisement -
- Advertisement -

The outage comes two days after the social media company reportedly laid off 200 employees.

Twitter company logoImage source, Reuters

Thousands of Twitter users around the world are reporting issues as the social network suffers another outage.

The Following and For you feeds – which display tweets on the platform’s homepage – instead carried a notice reading “Welcome to Twitter”. 

There were more than 5,000 reports flagged to outage monitor Downdetector within half an hour of the fault appearing at 10:00 GMT.

While the Following feed, which collects tweets from people who users are following on Twitter, is not working, some people are reporting they can now see the For you feed – a collection of tweets from people similar to those they follow.

And the site’s search tool appears to be partly working, although it does not display any tweets in the Latest tab.

The "Welcome to Twitter" message shown to users

Image source, Twitter

But despite the feeds not working, users are still able to tweet as normal – even if their tweets are falling on deaf ears – leading to the phrases “#TwitterDown” and “Welcome To Twitter” being among the top trends on the platform.

There have been several intermittent outages in recent months, with a temporary outage in early February seeing some users told they were over the daily limit for sending tweets.

The BBC has approached Twitter for comment.

Related Topics

- Advertisement -

Discover

Sponsor

Latest

Takeaway owner says free pizzas offer has been ‘very stressful’on January 18, 2023 at 6:18 am

Takeaway owner Marc Wilkinson says the giveaway will cost him three times more than he estimated.Takeaway owner Marc Wilkinson says the giveaway will cost...

The Papers: Kyiv faces siege and UK under fire over refugeeson March 12, 2022 at 5:26 am

The coming battle for Ukraine's capital and the ongoing fallout dominates the headlines.

Lionesses’ record scorer Ellen White retireson August 22, 2022 at 4:38 pm

Manchester City and England striker Ellen White announces her retirement from football.The 33-year-old scored a record 52 goals for the Lionesses and helped them...

Raymond Briggs obituary: An illustrious careeron August 10, 2022 at 7:30 am

Award-winning illustrator and cartoonist whose work The Snowman became a Christmas favourite.Award-winning illustrator and cartoonist whose work The Snowman became a Christmas favourite.

Government is undercutting institutions – Carneyon September 29, 2022 at 5:25 am

Former Bank of England Governor Mark Carney accused Downing Street of working at cross-purposes with the Bank.Image source, Getty ImagesFormer Bank of England Governor...