LONDON – Twitter users reported having trouble accessing the platformacross parts of of Western Europe and Russia, according to complaintslogged online.
The social media site wasn’t working in countries across Europe Thursday,and hundreds of users reported problems according to Downdetector.com.
Most of the problems were reported by desktop users, but the site was alsonot accessible on Android or Apple apps.
The highest volume of complaints emanated from major cities includingMoscow, Istanbul, London, Paris, and Berlin.[image: An image from DownDetector.com mapping complaints of a Twitterservice outage on Thursday.]
People attempting to visit the platform were met with a blank screen and aspinning loading bar. The problems began at approximately 8pm (GMT), andthe site functioned normally again for many users approximately 20 minuteslater. It’s not yet clear what caused the outage.
RT.com has contacted Twitter for comment.
Twitter is usually the first port of call for social media users when otherplatforms such as Facebook or Slack experience technical difficulties.
However, with Twitter itself down, people were unable to tweet theirfrustrations at not being able to use the service, instead turning toFacebook in confusion over the outage.
After normal service resumed Twitter was flooded with people sharing memesexpressing how they coped without their Twitter fix.