Twitter outage leads to chaos, users face ‘cannot retrieve tweets’ error
Twitter is yet to acknowledge the outage.
Twitter has been hit by a global outage that is preventing thousands of users from accessing the social media platform. Many users have complained of seeing the “Cannot retrieve tweets” error message when they try to view or post tweets. Some users have also reported seeing a “Rate limit exceeded error message.”
Twitter has not yet acknowledged the outage or provided any explanation for the cause of the problem. We will update this report as soon as we hear from them, so keep checking back for more information.
According to Down Detector, a website that tracks online service disruptions, over 4,000 reports of issues with Twitter have been logged so far.
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Following the momentary outage, thousands of users took to the micro-blogging site to share their experiences. Some shared memes that showed Twitter chief Elon Musk busy working towards restoring the platform. Many of the tweets were hilarious posts that ranged from comical memes to the outage featuring popular K-pop stars and comedians.
The outage which was reported, however, was not witnessed by many users across the globe. Weat indianexpress.com faced the outage, however, colleagues stationed at nearby locations informed us that the platform was working fine. This outage seems to be limited to a certain geographical area.
This is the third time that the platform is facing an outage. On March 6, it was reported that Twitter experienced a ‘bevvy’ of glitches as links stopped working, some users were unable to log in and images were not loading for others. Similarly, on February 8, it was reported that many Twitter users found themselves unable to tweet, follow accounts or access their direct messages as the Elon Musk-owned platform experienced a slew of technical problems.
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First published on: 01-07-2023 at 18:47 IST
