The incident is the social media site's first apparent widespread service disruption since billionaire Elon Musk took over Twitter as CEO in late October. Reports of Twitter outages fell sharply by Wednesday evening, according to the website, with some users later commenting service had returned to normal. During the outage, some users said they were unable to log in to their Twitter account via desktops or laptops. Thousands of Twitter users were also hit by a global outages in February and July, before Musk's takeover. In July, a near 19-hour service outage at Canada's biggest telecom operator Rogers Telecommunications shut banking, transport and government access for millions.

Source: News 24 December 29, 2022 07:40 UTC