Is Twitter.com is down? Social network collapses after suffering major outage

Twitter is back up for now. Still no word from any official channels though.

Most popular social media Twitter gets down around the world this afternoon after suffering a serious outage. The problem started just before 3pm this afternoon and stopped people logging on to the Twitter website or sending tweets using the app. People who visited the website were told: ‘Something is technically wrong. ‘Thanks for noticing. We’re going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon.’ On the website Down Detector, one person wrote: ‘My twitter page isn’t showing any tweets. Not the best time for this to happen. I hope they fix the problem soon.’ Another person added: ‘TWITTER IS DOWN… THIS IS THE END OF THE WORLD!’ It later snapped back to normal, revealing that a lot of twits had spent the outage frantically trying to write tweets about the inability to tweet.

Twitter down -Here are some of the top reasons websites go offline...

Hardware failures – servers that host websites can go wrong, and that can take a website offline

DNS issues – the DNS is the system that directs your computer to a website, so problems with the DNS can make websites appear as if they're not working

DDoS attack – hackers can flood a website's servers with fake 'pings', overloading them and causing them to crash

Hack attack – hackers could also get access to a website's systems and take it offline through a host of different methods

Scheduled maintenance – sometimes websites have to go offline for big changes to be made

Emergency maintence – if a very important change needs to be made quickly, users might not always be warned in advance of downtime

Were you affected by the Twitter outage? How did you cope during the 35 minutes of downtime? Let us know in the comments!