- Some Twitter users appeared to be experiencing issues Thursday, with many unable to reload their home timeline on the social platform.
- Twitter said on its status website that it is currently investigating an “unresolved incident” caused by a irregularities found in Twitter’s APIs.
- The apparent outage comes after a couple of busy days for Twitter following the publishing of a dubious New York Post article regarding Hunter Biden, the son of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
- Twitter responded to the dubious article by banning it from being shared on the site, prompting President Trump and Republicans to decry the company for harboring an anti-conservative bias.
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Some Twitter users appear to be experiencing issues, receiving an error message on the platform’s home page and being unable to reload the page, as well as having trouble tweeting.
“We know people are having trouble Tweeting and using Twitter. We’re working to fix this issue as quickly as possible” a Twitter spokesperson told Business Insider in an email.
According to the company’s status page, Twitter is currently investigating an “unresolved incident” and irregularities found with Twitter APIs.
The apparent outage comes on the heels of a tumultuous couple of days for Twitter, following the publishing of a dubious New York Post article on Wednesday regarding Hunter Biden, the son of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, and a Ukrainian official.
Twitter responded by immediately banning the article from being circulated on the site, without offering an explanation as to why. The company later came forward and said the ban was due to a hacking material policy, stating that it doesn’t “want to incentivize hacking by allowing Twitter to be used as distribution for possibly illegally obtained materials.”
Thursday's outage comes as the platform has experienced many similar issues this year, with the most recent occurring on Oct. 1. The incident was quickly resolved.
It has also grappled with a massive hack in July that saw more than 100 accounts, including those of Bill Gates, Barack Obama, and Elon Musk, compromised in a bitcoin scam, drawing criticism from lawmakers and cybersecurity experts.