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brooklynite

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Thu Oct 15, 2020, 07:55 PM Oct 2020

Twitter suffers massive outage; 'no evidence' of hack or security breach

Source: CBS Marketwatch

Twitter Inc. shares were little changed in after-hours trading Thursday as the social-media platform experienced a massive and as-yet-unexplained outage.

Twitter’s feed went down around 5:30 p.m. Eastern, with users unable to post new tweets or see anything posted past that time. Service appeared to be partially restored for some users around 7 p.m. Eastern.

Tens of thousands of users reported problems to DownDetector.com.

“We are currently investigating this issue,” Twitter said on its API website.



Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/twitter-shares-dip-amid-massive-outage-11602802591

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Twitter suffers massive outage; 'no evidence' of hack or security breach (Original Post) brooklynite Oct 2020 OP
its was down before 5:30 and is still not working here at 8pm nt yaesu Oct 2020 #1
russia sending a warning...... getagrip_already Oct 2020 #2
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