Twitter Down: Users Report Outage On Facebook (UPDATE)

UPDATE: Twitter began coming back online for many around 6:15 p.m.

Twitter went down on Wednesday evening around 5 p.m.

A status report from Down Right Now confirmed a "likely service disruption" Wednesday evening.

Facebook users have taken to the social network to report the downtime, according to a search of public Facebook posts on Openbook.

However, this outage may not be affecting all users. At almost 6 p.m., DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com reported that Twitter.com was still up, though feeds on Twitter and clients such as Tweet Deck were unresponsive at that time.

Just before 6 p.m., an update from the Twitter API feed, obtained via Down Right Now, addressed the outage and listed a possible cause: "If you can't access Twitter or @twitterapi right now, it might be due to a rather large internet outage."

Have you had problems with Twitter? Let us know in the comments.

Comments

[Deathly Pallor]

09:39 AM on 09/15/2011

That hour of not knowing whether my friends were going to McDonald's or using the bathroom was the most harrowing experience of my life. I'm already having flashbacks and nightmares about it.

[magedfoxx]

06:54 PM on 09/14/2011

in florida, it up, then down. 6:45 pm

[ProgressivePicon86]

06:45 PM on 09/14/2011

Oh boofrickidyhoo Twitter people, you should get over that dependence. *one hour later* What do you mean Facebook is down?! When will it be back?! oh gods, I can't take the absence of it anymore! *jumps out of window*

[tyjak]

06:42 PM on 09/14/2011

This is not twitter but random Internet outages. See on internettrafficreport.com

[magedfoxx]

06:43 PM on 09/14/2011

ty

[Alanxenos]

10:25 PM on 09/14/2011

Exactly. Not Twitter, but a specific Level3 server in San Jose where all traceroutes die off (TWITTER-INC.car3.SanJose1.Level3.net, then stops)

[magedfoxx]

06:39 PM on 09/14/2011

TWITTER BACK UP.
#florida

[magedfoxx]

06:29 PM on 09/14/2011

I CAN COMMUNICATE W. TWEEPS VIA BLIP.FM
http://blip.fm/home

[thatwriter]

06:26 PM on 09/14/2011

Twitter down in Santa Monica, CA. @shortcomment, @bachmannleaks and @rickperryleaks are quite annoyed.

[magedfoxx]

06:18 PM on 09/14/2011

Twitter down.

None of my usual bypasses will work.

[Leigh Spillers Huggins]

06:11 PM on 09/14/2011

Unable to access twitter from either my iphone or pc

[DrMatt]

06:10 PM on 09/14/2011

Down for me. I'm on the East of the the US

[Leigh Spillers Huggins]

06:10 PM on 09/14/2011

Twitter is down for me/WV

[Hollowspy]

06:07 PM on 09/14/2011

Yep, down in the UK for me on iOS clients and web browser :-/

[tyjak]

06:01 PM on 09/14/2011

twitter is down for me (I'm in france)