Twitter outage: what happened, when will service be restored, and more

The hashtag #TwitterDown saw a similar spike on Twitter itself, indicating that at least some people were able to tweet through it.

According to Downdetector, as many as 9,449 reports of Twitter error came in around 5PM EST. Many users were getting errors saying that they've reached their daily limits for tweets, something we can confirm. 

The problem seems to extent to both the Twitter mobile app as well as desktop users, and it is affecting retweets and DMs as well.

Twitter is down across the world right now and we're busy digging into what has caused the widespread outage affecting at least the US and UK.