Twitter down: Thousands of users report service failure

The social media portal Twitter has been down for several minutes. Thousands of users are reporting problems with the service on Facebook and various other sites.

Article at 21:06 pm: The Twitter service has been offline since 21 p.m. Our editorial team was also able to reproduce this on various devices and accounts. The website and the app are currently unavailable for many users. While the website often spits out "Connection refused" error messages, the app does not even load the content. Error messages such as "Messages could currently not be retrieved" are known on Android and iOS.

Twitter down: the failure currently seems to affect several countries. (Image: TechnikNews/Screenshot)

Twitter down: What to do?

The outages currently seem to affect parts of the United Kingdom and Europe. There also seem to be problems in Sweden, France, Greece and small parts of Finland and Spain. Therefore, the problem seems to be widespread. Last New Year's Eve, the messenger WhatsApp down, at that time also in these countries.

Currently there is no option but to wait. There is no statement on Facebook about the server problem. However, websites such as All disturbances Messages from thousands of users in Germany and Austria. Some users have already tried to reinstall the app or log in again without success. These measures did not help either.

Update at 21:16 p.m.: Currently, the problem seems to persist. Patience is required.

Update at 21:28 p.m.: The Twitter disruption seems to have largely subsided. However, there are still isolated malfunctions in the app on Android and iOS.

Update at 21:34 p.m.: Once again there are problems accessing content on smartphones.

Update at 21:42 p.m.: Faults seem to have been resolved.