For several hours on Thursday evening, not much is going on on Twitter. In the meantime, the problem seems to have been resolved for many users. The network is currently ruling out a hack.
Twitter investigates global technology problems in its network. A spokesman for the US company said that users were currently having difficulties sending Twitter messages and accessing the platform. Currently, however, a lot of news seems to be getting through again, as the hashtag #TwitterDown shows.
They are working to fix the problem as soon as possible, it said on a status page on Twitter. There is no evidence that the disruption was caused by a security breach or a hack. There were problems both on the platform and with other apps that access Twitter's interfaces. Reasons were initially not given.
Twitter plays an important role as a communication platform in the current US election campaign. US President Donald Trump has always used the service intensively to get his messages across. On Wednesday, Trump had vehemently criticized Twitter as well as the internet company Facebook for blocking access to a critical article about the opposition presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son.
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