Massive Twitter Outage Wednesday Affecting Service Worldwide ‘You Might Have Trouble Tweeting’

LOS ANGELES, CA. (THECOUNT) — Twitter is suffering service outages affecting users in various parts of the world on Wednesday.

The outage is also affecting Tweetdeck.

Twitter’s official support account tweeted that it had been experiencing problems at about 6 a.m. Wednesday, U.K. time (10 p.m. Tuesday in Los Angeles). “You might have had trouble Tweeting, getting notifications, or viewing DMs,” it said. “We’re currently working on a fix, and should be back to normal soon” reports variety.

The outage has reportedly hit users of the social networking site and the Twitter management dashboard TweetDeck in parts of Europe, the U.S. and Asia. An outage map from the downdetector.com website shows the U.K. and Western and Southern Europe particularly badly affected, as well as the West Coast of the U.S. and Japan.

The technical issue seemingly means some users are not able to see direct messages and are experiencing issues with posting images and video. Some users report being redirected to the main Twitter service when trying to access TweetDeck.

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