Twitter service restored following global platform failure

San Francisco:

Twitter service appears to have been restored Thursday evening after a technical glitch caused a nearly two-hour global outage on the social media platform used by hundreds of millions of people around the world.

The blackout marked yet another setback for the network, which is pushing back accusations of bias over its decision to block critical reporting by Democratic White House candidate Joe Biden.

“Twitter is down for a lot of you and we’re working to get it back on track for everyone,” the California-based company tweeted.

“We have had issues with our internal systems and have no evidence of a security breach or hack.”

At around 11:40 p.m. GMT, it was possible to perform certain functions, such as retweeting a message, but many users were still unable to send a new tweet.

“Something went wrong, but don’t worry – let’s try again,” an error message said.

According to downdetector.com, users on all continents said they could not use the platform, but the outages were focused on the eastern and western coasts of the United States, as well as Japan.

The outage appears to have started around 9:30 p.m. GMT.

“We are continuing to monitor as our teams investigate. More updates to come,” Twitter’s application programming interface site said.

– Bias? –

Twitter this week has brushed aside accusations of bias since making the dramatic decision to narrow the scope of a New York Post article criticizing Biden and prompting a harsh reprimand from Tories.

It was the last technical breakdown to take Twitter offline. The platform experienced a one-hour outage in July 2019, one of several hours a year ago and another in February.

More worrying were hacking attacks on popular platforms such as Twitter.

In July, it was the victim of a spectacular attack when prominent Americans including former President Barack Obama, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Tesla chief Elon Musk, saw their accounts hacked.

The hack affected at least 130 accounts, with tweets posted by intruders trick people into sending $ 100,000 in Bitcoin, supposedly in exchange for double the amount sent.

Several people have since been charged with the hacking.

In September 2019, Twitter experienced a brief but embarrassing attack: its founder Jack Dorsey’s account was hacked and erratic and offensive messages were posted by his account.

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