Twitter down news: Twitter back after brief outage for some Indian users

Twitter down news: The popular micro-blogging platform Twitter, now owned by  Elon Musk suffered a brief outage in India on Friday morning and came back to life soon. Twitter is now working for the Android and iOS.  Twitter on mobile was working fine but users on the desktop version had some troubles logging into the platform.

The Twitter website also went down for some users, with a message saying "Something went wrong, but don't fret - let's give it another shot". According to downdetector.com, a website that monitors online outages, 94 per cent users had issues with Twitter on Web, while just 6 per cent faced issues with the mobile platform.

In July, the micro-blogging platform suffered a mega outage as several users across the world had error messages like "this page is down". Several users also faced "over capacity" error messages across Twitter web, mobile and the TweetDeck app.

In March, Twitter users experienced difficulties accessing the platform on desktops as an outage was reported in Japan, India, the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia. Twitter faced two mega outages in February as users were not able to post tweets for several minutes.

Earlier, Meta-owned WhatsApp recently submitted its report to the IT ministry on the service outage that happened in late October. The ministry had asked the Meta-owned messaging platform to share reasons for the service disruption. WhatsApp services snag in October had left users complaining about not being able to send or receive text and video messages, and services had resumed after nearly two hours. The sources said that WhatsApp has submitted its report on the service outage.