ToplineThousands of users on Twitter were left unable to load their timelines Monday afternoon when the platform appeared to be struggling with outages. Twitter was down Monday afternoon for some users in the northeast U.S. and Canada. AFP via Getty ImagesKey FactsAccording to outage tracking service DownDetector, the number of users reporting outages spiked just after 2 p.m. EST time on Monday. Nearly 15,000 people reported outages, according to the tracker, and the reports were most heavily concentrated in New York City, Washington, D.C. and Toronto. DownDetector shows a smaller number of outages were reported earlier in the day, around 11 a.m. EST.Twitter did not immediately respond to a Forbes request for comment.

Source: Forbes September 20, 2021 19:18 UTC