Updated Oct 15, 2020 - Technology

Twitter experiences a widespread outage

A screenshot of Twitter not working

Screenshot: Axios

Twitter was down for more than an hour on Thursday, preventing new messages from being sent and the service from loading. The company told Axios during the outage that it had "no evidence of a security breach or hack" and was investigating internal causes.

What they're saying: "We know people are having trouble Tweeting and using Twitter. We’re working to fix this issue as quickly as possible," Twitter said in an e-mail to Axios.

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