Twitter Has Global Outage at a Really Bad Time
Twitter went down worldwide on Wednesday at a pretty bad time for sports. We're in the middle of Super Bowl week and the NBA rumor mill is heating up in advance of Thursday's trade deadline.
People reacted immediately to the outages and issues, including TweetDeck going out:
🚨JUST IN: Twitter down worldwide, users unable to tweet pic.twitter.com/k59wGeDXMz
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 8, 2023
twitter is experiencing a severe outage rn — can't load or send DMs, follow new people or tweet normally. (this was tweeted via scheduling the tweet)
— Erin Woo (@erinkwoo) February 8, 2023
ℹ️ Note: Twitter is experiencing international outages affecting website, mobile app and features including posting and retweeting; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering #TwitterDown pic.twitter.com/3OmR99Uy76
— NetBlocks (@netblocks) February 8, 2023
Apparently to tweet you have to schedule a tweet and it'll work. This is so dumb. I'd pay for Tweetdeck because I see the world through Tweetdeck like it's the Matrix, but can I turn it off the checkmark so no one knows I paid for Twitter like an herb?
— MattHardigree (@MattHardigree) February 8, 2023
So the only way to tweet is to schedule a tweet on Tweetdeck, assuming you haven't been logged out of Tweetdeck already. Great site, Elon.
— Andrew Joseph (@AndyJ0seph) February 8, 2023
Did Twitter just kill Tweetdeck? I can't get to it anymore, it just goes back to the login page if I try logging into Twitter (the Twitter web UI works at least).
— Jeff Geerling (@geerlingguy) February 8, 2023
Twitter not accepting tweets, and giving me "over your limit" errors, then also crashing Tweetdeck. Apologies if the Tweet I just tried to put up for @refugees winds up posting more than once. (Using the "Scheduled tweets" work around.)
— Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) February 8, 2023
Cool. TweetDeck is still down though. I will [PARODY] [SATIRE] if that's permanent.
— Nick Stellini (@StelliniTweets) February 8, 2023
me when tweetdeck stopped working pic.twitter.com/76TV7wLLc6
— Max Olson (@max_olson) February 8, 2023
Outages and glitches have happened far more often over the past few weeks. The company had better get those issues ironed out before Super Bowl LVII. Sports media depends heavily on social media as do sports fans to follow real time information. The Super Bowl is one of the biggest days of the year on the site. An outage would be devastating.