Is Twitter down? Thousands of users complain of issues with social media website and app

Thousands of Twitter users have reported problems with the social media platform this afternoon.

More than 3,000 people have complained of issues on the Down Detector site, including the inability to retrieve tweets, missing timelines and followers disappearing.

It is not clear what the cause of the problems is or how long they will last. The company has yet to comment.

One social media user wrote on Down Detector: “I joined Twitter in 2009, and I’ve had more problems since Elon took over than the whole time before that. Insanity.”

Users have reported receiving the message ‘rate-limit exceeded’ on their For You page, a page usually consisting of non-stop personal, curated content.

Someone experiencing this said: “Dear Twitter, I am not rate limited as there is no rate limit-sort this out NOW!”

Even those who have access to the platform have complained about issues.

And, as usual with social media outages, the memes are already coming thick and fast.

The latest issues come after a major outage on the site in March, soon after the company’s most recent round of layoffs.

Visitors to the site saw what appeared to be a welcome page, as if they did not follow anyone on the site. It encouraged them to click through and find their first people to follow.

“Welcome to Twitter!” the message read. “This is the best place to see what’s happening in your world. Find some people and topics to follow now.”

A similar message appeared on the app version of Twitter, with a button reading “Let’s go” that took users to a list of suggested users.

But there was no way to get around that initial message, leaving users unable to see the feed or any posts from the people they do actually already follow.

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