https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/twitter-down-outage-1234953749/ >>Twitter Experiences Widespread Outage >> >>Twitter went down Friday afternoon for many users, with thousands of people reporting problems viewing and sending tweets on the social network site. >> >>An error message on twitter.com said, “Something went wrong. Try again.” In the Twitter app, an error message said, “Tweets aren’t loading right now.” >> >>According to tracking site DownDetector.com, user reports of problems at Twitter spiked just before 8 p.m. ET. More than 50,000 users had reported issues as of 8:03 p.m. ET, according to DownDetector. The issues appeared to be mainly affecting the eastern half of the U.S. >> >>Twitter profiles were still accessible in the app (and so were Fleets). While posts cached in the app were visible, users couldn’t like, retweet or comment on them.