Twitter services down for thousands of users across the world, company says 'working on fixing problem'

On April 17, microblogging platform Twitter Inc said that it is "working on fixing a problem" after many users reported that they are facing problems loading tweets.

"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 posted at 6:21 am on Saturday (local time).

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.

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) April 17, 2021

Around 40,000 users reported issues with the social media platform Friday, according to outage monitoring website 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.

(With input from Reuters)