Twitter down: Site stops working as it refuses to load at all
The site goes down fairly regularly – and usually comes back up again
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Your support makes all the difference.Twitter is broken, not letting people load its website at all.
Accessing the site through other means – like Tweetdeck or mobile – doesn't appear to be working either.
The site has been having problems on and off throughout the last few hours. At around 2am UK time, it had huge problems, according to the website Down Detector.
Those were quickly fixed and the site came back online, as it often does following problems.
Unlike other outages, Twitter doesn't appear to be showing an error message to those people who can't get onto it. Instead, the site will just hang and refuse to load.
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