{"id":371698,"date":"2020-10-16T07:17:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T05:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=371698"},"modified":"2020-10-16T07:18:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T05:18:14","slug":"twitter-suffers-global-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/371698-twitter-suffers-global-outage.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter suffers global outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter Inc. suffered an apparent worldwide\u00a0<span id=\"251d38d4-0f3c-11eb-872d-308d99724420\">outage<\/span>\u00a0on Thursday that lasted about an hour and a half, affecting users of its social network from New York to Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>Some service was restored and tweets began appearing again at about 7 p.m. New York time.<\/p>\n<p>The company earlier said it saw no evidence of a security breach or hack, but was investigating internal causes for the problems.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco-based Twitter had said on its status\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/api.twitterstat.us\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>\u00a0it was looking into an \u201cirregularity\u201d with its APIs, the technology that lets different software systems interact with each other.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Twitter has been down for many of you and we\u2019re working to get it back up and running for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>We had some trouble with our internal systems and don\u2019t have any evidence of a security breach or hack.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitterSupport\/status\/1316880612691591174?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Downdetector.com, which tracks outages,\u00a0received\u00a0at least 50,000 reports about problems with the social media platform, starting at about 5:15 pm.<\/p>\n<p>The number of Twitter reports on the site had declined to less than 6,000 as of 7:03 p.m.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/371521-windows-10-now-warns-users-of-annoying-startup-apps.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Windows 10 now warns users of annoying startup apps<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter suffered an apparent worldwide\u00a0outage\u00a0on Thursday that lasted about an hour and a half<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":144773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[59487,405,12761],"class_list":["post-371698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-downdetector","tag-twitter","tag-twitter-outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371702,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371698\/revisions\/371702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}