Twitter down: Company says ‘working on fixing a problem’

Around 40,000 users reported issues with the social media platform Friday, according to Downdetector.com

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The Twitter App loads on an iPhone in this illustration photograph taken in Los Angeles, California, US, July 22, 2019. -REUTERS

Twitter Inc said late on Friday that it was working on fixing an access issue after thousands of users reported problems with the platform.

"Tweets may not be loading for some of you. We're working on fixing a problem and you'll be back on the timeline soon," the company said in a tweet.

Around 40,000 users reported issues with the social media platform Friday, according to outage monitoring website Downdetector.com.

Downdetector reports outages in Twitter services.

Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outage could have affected a larger number of users.