Twitter Experiences , Global Outage.<br />'The Guardian' reports <br />that the social media <br />platform was down <br />for nearly an hour <br />on July 14.<br />According to Downdetector.co.uk, Twitter appears to have failed worldwide for <br />45 minutes, its longest outage in years.<br />According to Downdetector.co.uk, Twitter appears to have failed worldwide for <br />45 minutes, its longest outage in years.<br />The Verge reports that users complained of <br />"over capacity" and "this page is down" error messages.<br />The Verge reports that users complained of <br />"over capacity" and "this page is down" error messages.<br />'The Guardian' reports Twitter's last severe collapse was a multi-hour outage in 2016, .<br />when the site was down <br />for two and a half hours.<br />In February of this year, Twitter was down twice in one week due to a “technical bug that was preventing timelines <br />from loading and Tweets from posting.”.<br />Twitter hasn't offered a <br />detailed reason for the outage, .<br />but issued a tweet <br />in response to <br />the problem.