Yes, Twitter Is Down. No, It’s Not Just You

October 16, 2020
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Social Media

Twitter outage map showing where Twitter is down.

John Koetsier

“Can love prevail? Will Jericho risk his heart? Only the king of the Jinn knows the answers.”

No, your favorite Forbes contributor hasn’t gone insane, although the various pressures of 2020 are mounting. Rather, Twitter keeps showing me the same tweet again and again: a share of a “paranormal romance” from a multi-genre author that I follow.

The answers to the questions in that tweet, sadly, do not interest me. What does interest me is when Twitter will be back up.

According to Down Detector, Twitter is having issues across the planet, with significant problems on the east coast of the U.S., but other challenges across the country, in Europe, in Japan, and in Brazil, with minor challenges in other countries like Canada, India, Australia, and Turkey.

The last tweet I can see is from 47 minutes ago: the aforementioned paranormal romance. It is not, sadly, exactly my cup of tea.

The last tweet Twitter is showing me during this outage.

John Koetsier

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John Koetsier

But it’s not just the timeline that is having issues. Twitter Notifications and Bookmarks are also down. Hashtags and trending topics are still nominally up, but the latest tweets they’re showing are as much as an hour old.

In effect, Twitter is showing some static pages, but accessing fresh tweets from its database seems to be the problem.

The problem just hit Twitter’s status page, where Twitter is saying that the company knows “people are having trouble Tweeting and using Twitter. We’re working to fix this issue as quickly as possible.”

As soon as possible, of course, means there isn’t currently an ETA.

One possible reason for the outage: Twitter is “over capacity.” That’s what the service reports when you try to tweet, at least. There has been significant conversation on the service about Twitter and Facebook shutting down the NY Post story on alleged Hunter Biden emails, and of course political discourse on the site has been hot for months now, and getting hotter.

Twitter is down. Here's a message I got when trying to post this story. — Twitter is down. Here’s a message I got when trying to post this story.

John Koetsier

Until Twitter is back up, we may just actually have to talk to people for a while. It can’t hurt, and it will probably improve the U.S. national discourse.

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