Twitter Services Restored After Global Outage, No Evidence of Hack or Breach

Twitter has said that its micro-blogging platform was down for many users earlier in the day due to some trouble with its internal systems. The company also clarified that there is no evidence of any security breach or hack. According to outage tracking website down detector, the outage was most prominent at around 3:30AM IST on Friday, October 16, with a maximum of 59,082 outage reports globally. The live outage map on outage tracking website downdetector.com shows that it was a global outage – most number of reports came from the United States and Japan.

Twitter alerted users through its Twitter Support handle. The company sent out the tweet about an hour after the outage, and said that it is looking into the issue, further clarifying that there was no breach. “Twitter has been down for many of you and we’re working to get it back up and running for everyone. We had some trouble with our internal systems and don’t have any evidence of a security breach or hack,” the Tweet said. Reports suggested that Twitter was also back up and running about an hour after the outage.