- Twitter ( NYSE: TWTR ) experienced a widespread outage Thursday, wide reports of users receiving error messages and pages not loading across the social-networking service's various platform.
- The Downdetector site, which tracks reports of outages with major online services, said the Twitter ( TWTR ) issues began pouring in at around 8 a.m. Eastern. However, neither Twitter's ( TWTR ) corporate communications nor support departments put out any of their own tweets on the reported outages. Twitter's ( TWTR ) status page also didn't show and reports of service interruptions.
- Downdector said that 61% of the outage reports involved Twitter's ( TWTR ) mobile app, while 30% came from users of the company's website and 8% were from bad server connections.
- Prior to the start of Thursday's trading session, Rosenblatt Securities analyst Barton Crockett raised his rating on Twitter's ( TWTR ) stock to buy, and set a $52-a-share price target on teh company's stock. Crockett said he made the moves because it appears Twitter ( TWTR ) has gained some leverage with its lawsuit in which is it seeking to hold Elon Musk to his company acquisition agreement .
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Twitter reportedly seeing widespread service outages