Twitter Outages Due To Internal Repair Failure, Now Operating Normal Again

Twitter is down due to an internal fix failure. (photo: doc. Pixabay)

JAKARTA - Twitter Inc announced on Tuesday, August 9, that it has fixed an issue that had occurred after thousands of users reported that they had difficulty accessing the micro-blogging platform.

More than 27,000 users have reported Twitter service outages, according to Downdetector.com, a website that tracks outages by compiling status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.

The blackout started at 13.50 WIB. ET and had as many as 35,000 reports at its peak.

"We fixed it! We made an internal system change that didn't go as planned and have canceled it. Twitter should now load as expected. Sorry about that!," Twitter said in a tweet.

This is the second outage in recent months. Meanwhile, the social media company is in a legal tussle with Tesla boss Elon Musk over a $44 billion takeover deal.

Last month, Twitter users faced a nearly three-hour blackout in July, when the San Francisco-based company said it had several issues with its internal systems that impacted large numbers of people globally.

Best known for service outages in its early years, Twitter is known for using the popular illustration "Failed Whale", which shows a beluga whale being lifted by a bird, during such incidents.

Twitter users took to Reddit to complain about the outage, with many users saying all they could see was the Twitter logo when they tried to log in.

"No Twitter to know why Twitter isn't working" joked one user on a Reddit channel dedicated to Twitter.

Twitter had suffered another widespread outage in February that was blamed on a software glitch.

Other major tech companies have also experienced outages in the past year, with nearly six hours of disruption occurring on the Meta Platform that left WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger unreachable for billions of users in October.