Twitter Suffers One-Hour Global Outage After Suing Musk

On Thursday, July 14, 2022, Twitter returned online after an hour-long outage prevented hundreds of users from accessing the social media network.

Photo Insert: The outage occurred days after Twitter sued Tesla CEO Elon Musk for breaching his agreement to purchase the firm.

The outage affected approximately 2,000 customers as of 9 a.m. ET (10:00 p.m. in Manila), according to the outage tracking website Downdetector.com, down from a peak of 50,000 instances an hour earlier.

The event occurred days after Twitter sued Tesla CEO Elon Musk for breaching his agreement to purchase the firm and urged a Delaware court to compel the world's richest man to finish the acquisition.

"Some of you are having issues accessing Twitter and we’re working to get it back up and running for everyone. Thanks for sticking with us," the social media company said in a tweet.

The dashboard for Twitter's status indicated that the company was examining the problem with certain of its application programming interfaces.

According to Well Fargo Securities analyst Brian Fitzgerald, Twitter is hosted by Amazon Web Services and started using Google Cloud Platform as a secondary vendor in 2018. Fitzgerald told Reuters that it does not appear to be a problem with the company's cloud vendors as other services continue to operate.

In February, Twitter had another significant outage that it attributed to a software bug. In October, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger from Meta Platforms were inaccessible to billions of users due to a nearly six-hour outage.

Twitter used its popular "Fail Whale" graphic, which depicted a whale being hoisted by birds, for outages in its early years until 2013, when it retired the logo.

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