Twitter Goes Down Worldwide
The outage which happened on Thursday afternoon, July 14 saw millions of users lose access to the social media platform
Marvin Chege 
Social media microblogging platform, Twitter, has gone down across the world.
Multiple users, including this writer, reported being unable to refresh, log in to their accounts or even access their accounts altogether.
The outage which happened on Thursday afternoon, July 14 saw millions of users lose access to the social media platform, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
A phone with the Twitter app. /FILE
There were more than 27,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Twitter in the United States, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources.
Users in other countries including the United Kingdom, Mexico, Brazil and Italy also reported Twitter not working. Other outages have been reported in Africa Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific region.
Twitter's main page revealed that there was an error in terms of logging in, with the message "Something went wrong, but don’t fret — it’s not your fault. Let’s try again" being visible on the login page.
The Guardian reported that the platform went down at 12.55 pm UK time, one of the site's longest outages for years.
Although Twitter was notorious for collapsing under heavy load in its early days, with older users fondly recalling the “fail whale” error message that appeared when the service was over capacity, it has not had a multi-hour outage since 2016, when it was inaccessible for two and a half hours.
The platform soon resumed operations following multiple checks and is yet to issue an official comment.
The outage comes three days after tech billionaire Elon Musk mocked Twitter's efforts to force him to purchase the company.
Early on Monday, July 11, Musk tweeted four images of him laughing next to captions that read: "They said I couldn't buy Twitter. Then they wouldn't disclose bot information. Now they want to force me to buy Twitter in court. Now they have to disclose bot information in court."
That was soon followed by a picture of actor Chuck Norris playing chess with only a single pawn on his side of the board, and a complete set of pieces on the other side, with Musk tweeting, "Chuckmate."
Tech billionaire Elon Musk. /PEOPLE
Musk disclosed on Friday, July 8 that he was pulling out of his agreement to buy Twitter, citing the lack of information about the number of Twitter users made up of bots. His lawyer said that placed Twitter "in material breach of multiple provisions" of the original agreement.
Twitter responded by saying it would "pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement.
