Update, it only lasted about 2 hours.
Twitter’s massive outage may be over, company says ‘no evidence’ of hack
I confess I use Twitter more than tRump. He must be going crazy unless Putin hackers are behind it.
The failure of Twitter all around the globe is making the news.
Twitter is experiencing a massive outage right now
Twitter is experiencing an outage that began in the early evening on Thursday, with some users reporting problems sending tweets and refreshing their timelines starting shortly after 5:30PM ET. We have seen no new tweets cross our timelines since then, though we were able to find a tweet sent as late as 5:40PM ET using Twitter’s search tool.
User-generated reports on Downdetector.com are skyrocketing as well, but there’s no communication from the company itself as to the nature of the outrage. Twitter’s last major outage, occurring in February of this year, still allowed users to circumvent that outage by scheduling tweets. This does not appear to be a useable workaround right now.
So this Twitter failure is not like anything that happened before.
As I said it’s all over the news;
Twitter is a key part of the modern global Agora whether we like it or not.
Twitter has been in the news lately (as normal);
Differences in How Democrats and Republicans Behave on Twitter
A small minority of users create the vast majority of tweets from U.S. adults, and 69% of these highly prolific tweeters are Democrats
As Twitter and Facebook Clamp Down, Republicans Claim ‘Election Interference’
SAN FRANCISCO — President Trump called Facebook and Twitter “terrible” and “a monster” and said he would go after them. Senators Ted Cruz and Marsha Blackburn said they would subpoena the chief executives of the companies for their actions. And on Fox News, prominent conservative hosts blasted the social media platforms as “monopolies” and accused them of “censorship” and election interference.
On Thursday, simmering discontent among Republicans over the power that Facebook and Twitter wield over public discourse erupted into open acrimony. Republicans slammed the companies and baited them a day after the sites limited or blocked the distribution of an unsubstantiated New York Post article about Hunter Biden, the son of the Democratic presidential nominee, Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Let’s see what happens. IMO now this could be big.
For your amusement this is a reply to one of the twittator’s twitts 2 hours ago (nothing since);