Happy Friday. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Twitter appeared to be having some issues Friday; itâs not working on desktop for some people, and the problems seem more prevalent on the West Coast. While researching a story, tweets wouldnât load on a specific profile for me, and then an error message appeared that wouldnât go away.
However, things seem to be improving. The error has disappeared, though Iâm still having some trouble loading profiles. Downdetector is showing a spike in user reports, with about 37,000 reporting problems as of this writing.
Looking at Downdetectorâs outage map, it appears the issues have primarily affected West Coast users. That includes me â Iâm based in Portland, OR. (Perhaps that red dot over Portland is the Downdetector report I made.)
Screenshot by Jay Peters
Downdetectorâs outage map as of 12:47PM ET.
Three California-based Verge staffers said theyâve been seeing problems, though many East Coast-based staffers seem to be having no issues. TweetDeck has also continued to work for me without problems.
Twitterâs status page, at least at the time of publishing, is showing that all systems are operational. Twitter didnât immediately reply to a request for comment about the potential outage.
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