Twitter experienced a widespread but seemingly brief outage in the United States and parts of Europe on Thursday – new turmoil for the company embroiled in a takeover battle with Elon Musk.
The Downdetector website showed outage reports in the United States spiked around 8:00 a.m. (1200 GMT), while users reported service disruptions in France and elsewhere.
However, by around 1245 GMT reports of outages to Downdetector had died down and users were back on the social media platform joking about the disruption.
“I just had my most productive 30 minutes in years. Regardless, Twitter appears to have been down for 30 minutes,” @joelyagar tweeted.
Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Service disruptions on social media platforms happen regularly, but major and long-term service outages are not common.
The service issues on Twitter come as the company has started a legal battle with Musk over its moves to back out of its $44 billion takeover bid that has roiled the company.
Twitter has sued to force Musk to complete the deal after saying it would end it over issues, including his argument that the company hadn’t disclosed the number of fake accounts.
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