Twitter went down early Thursday morning. (Screenshot)
#Disaster.
Twitter went down early Thursday morning, affecting millions of tweeters around the globe.
According to website DownDetector.com, the social media site started having issues around 4:48 a.m. Eastern. While that time period isn’t exactly peak usage for Twitter, the site recorded over 200 reported problems from users in the first few minutes of the outage.
For some users, the site came back around 5:30 Eastern. Most of the reports coming in are for desktop users, suggesting that many still have functionality on mobile devices.
Thursday’s events are on the heels of a week in which Twitter has played a major role in world events. Last week, users tweeted #PorteOuverte to offer a home for those stuck in Paris after the coordinated attacks that left over 120 dead.
Earlier in the week, tweets regarding the threats in Hannover, Germany, perpetuated false rumors after police ordered HDI Arena to be evacuated.
Just yesterday, hacking group Anonymous began it’s online war against ISIS, and reportedly shut down over 5,000 pro-ISIS Twitter accounts.
In it’s latest report, Twitter reported having over 320 million active users. However, Twitter’s stock dropped this week, with reports citing a decline in growth.
