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Twitter down again in Pakistan with hundreds reporting outages

Downdetector.com, an outage monitoring website, shows hundreds of Pakistanis reporting they can't access Twitter

Web Desk
April 17, 2021
Twitter down again in Pakistan with hundreds reporting outages
People holding mobile phones are silhouetted against a backdrop projected with the Twitter logo in this illustration picture taken September 27, 2013. — Reuters/File

Twitter on Saturday evening stopped working again with several users reporting they are having trouble accessing the social media platform.

Downdetector.com, an outage monitoring website, showed that hundreds of users in Pakistan reported that they were facing problems.

The outages reported in Pakistan on Downdetector.com.

Meanwhile, nearly 8,000 users reported outages across the world, according to Downdetector.com.

The outages reported on Downdetector.com.

Late Friday, Twitter had said that it was working on fixing an access issue after thousands of users reported problems with the platform.

"Tweets may not be loading for some of you. We're working on fixing a problem and you'll be back on the timeline soon," the company said in a tweet.

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Around 40,000 users reported issues with the social media platform Friday, according to Downdetector.com.

Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outage could have affected a larger number of users.


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