The microblogging platform, Twitter, on Saturday night was inaccessible to thousands of users across the globe as they complained of facing issues while using the social networking website, Downdetector reported.
More than 7,000 users across the world reported that they cannot access the platform, according to Downdetector, which reports outages of websites and platforms. Out of the total, over 5,000 complaints were reported from the United Kingdom alone.
Users in other countries — including Pakistan, India, Saudi
Arabia, Singapore, Turkiye and Germany — also reported facing problems with
Elon Musk's platform.
They complained that the platform was
unable to load tweets, with many only able to see posts from Friday
evening.
The cause of the crash was not immediately clear.
Twitter Inc has not directly commented on the matter yet.
According
to an online usage tracker, Twitter saw a huge spike in outages at around
8am Eastern Time Saturday.
Taking to his official Twitter handle, Musk revealed that
Twitter has set some per day limits for reading tweets to "address extreme
levels of data scraping and system manipulation".
A day earlier,
the billionaire wrote on the microblogging site that “this platform hit
another all-time high in user-seconds last week”.
According to
Downdetector, a Twitter outage was also reported in May with more than 3,600
incidents of people reporting issues with the microblogging platform.
In
February it was also reported that many Twitter users were unable to tweet,
follow accounts or access their direct messages.
