People Freak When Twitter Goes Down for a Few Minutes
If you’re having issues accessing Twitter this morning, you’re not alone. Users experienced issues with accessing the website on Thursday, with some receiving the site’s standard error message: “Something is technically wrong. Thanks for noticing — we’re going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon.”
Although it’s unknown as of now what caused the outage, DownRightNow.com, which monitors the status of popular services, said the service disruption occurred soon after 9 a.m. ET. By 9:35 a.m. ET, users were able to get back onto the platform.
“The issues some users may have experienced accessing Twitter earlier today have now been resolved,” a spokesperson told Mashable.
However, Twitter had not yet updated its status page.
While the shortage was short, users (not surprisingly) had nowhere to air their frustrations.
When Twitter was down for like a min, I felt really lost because my first instinct was to tweet about it and I had nowhere to go
— Alicia Tan (@aliciabeige) October 15, 2015
Twitter was down, so I started yelling tweets out my window.
— Ivan the K™ ️ (@IvanTheK) October 15, 2015
Were you there? #Twitter #TwitterDown pic.twitter.com/mBKSsr3SCo
— TrivWorks (@TrivWorks) October 15, 2015
Twitter went down so I couldn’t even search for other people tweeting twitter down, it was terrifying
— Lily Bailey (@LilyBaileyUK) October 15, 2015
The issue appeared to mostly affect users accessing the web version of Twitter.