Yes, Twitter was down
Here's something to really make Tuesday feel like another Monday: Twitter crashed and burned again.
The social media platform went down just after 10:15 a.m. ET on Tuesday morning with thousands of reports flooding in to Downdetector (full disclosure: Downdetector, like Mashable, is owned by Ziff Davis).
We've reached out to Twitter for word on what caused the outage — Rise of Skywalker reactions? Trump's heinous "lynching" tweet? Aliens? — and will update when we hear back.
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The service came back at around 10:30 a.m. ET to the relief (or dismay?) of users.
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UPDATE: Oct. 22, 2019, 10:48 a.m. EDT A Twitter spokesperson told us, "During regular service testing, there was an issue causing Twitter to not load for some people for about 10 minutes. This issue is now resolved so you can keep on Tweeting!"
Topics Social Media X/Twitter
Marcus Gilmer is Mashable's Assistant Real-Times News Editor on the West Coast, reporting on breaking news from his location in San Francisco. An Alabama native, Marcus earned his BA from Birmingham-Southern College and his MFA in Communications from the University of New Orleans. Marcus has previously worked for Chicagoist, The A.V. Club, the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.
