Twitter Down: Website Problems, Affected Areas, Other Details

Twitter is currently down! This latest outage is affecting hundreds of users in various areas.

As of writing, Elon Musk and his Twitter engineers are still fixing many in-app problems of the platform.

They are also enhancing the algorithm and other features of Twitter. This is why outages are no longer surprising on Twitter.

If you are among the affected Twitter users, here's what you need to know.

Twitter Down

According to Republic World's latest report, the Twitter outage began on Thursday, Feb. 23.

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Although this is not that serious compared to the recent Twitter outages, over 500 users are still affected.

Down Detector confirmed that 54% of these Twitter users experience problems with their apps.

Meanwhile, 33% are having issues when accessing the Twitter website. The remaining 14% are affected by server connection issues.

Affected Twitter users are located in the United States; many of them are in New York, while some are in the Bahamas, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

What to Do During Twitter Outage

The official Twitter Help Center provided some tips that users can follow if there's an outage.

However, you need to remember that these troubleshooting tips are not 100% efficient, especially if the problems are on Twitter's side.

But, there's no harm in trying these Twitter tips:

Try using incognito or other private browser windows.
Always check your internet connection. If ever you are using a VPN, try turning it off.
Check if your browser is updated. If not, update the browser first then try accessing Twitter again.
Try clearing your cache and cookies. There are some instances when removing these can fix your Twitter issues.
Remove third-party access to your Twitter account.

If you want to learn more about Twitter troubleshooting tips, you can click this link.

Although the Twitter platform still has many problems, the social media's team is doing their best to improve user experiences.

Recently, reports stated that the Twitter DM could have an upgrade. This detail was shared after Elon Musk agrees to a poll's result.

We also reported that Twitter Blue's new feature will soon allow users to access 2FA via SMS.

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