In the early morning hours, tens of thousands of Twitter users, mostly from Canada, were in full panic mode after an outage shut the platform down. .Twitter Support posted an update at 7:10 a.m. MST Thursday that addressed the issue. ."Some of you are having issues accessing Twitter and we're working to get it back up and running for everyone," said the tweet, adding, "Thanks for sticking with us." .That was followed by another tweet at 10:37 a.m. MST, nearly three and a half hours later. ."And we're back!" read the tweet.."We had some trouble with our internal systems that impacted many of you globally. Twitter should be up and running as expected — sorry for the interruption." .While offline, Twitter users trying to access the social media platform received this message: "Tweets aren't loading right now. Try again." .Twitter's main platform offered no information on the outage or what caused it. .Downdetector, a company that collects status reports from a series of sources, including Twitter, analyzes reports in real-time to detect service disruptions. . Downdetector map of Twitter outageDowndetector map of Twitter outage .According to data collected by Downdetector from users experiencing issues with their accounts, Twitter experienced outages in parts of southern Alberta and BC, parts of southern Ontario and Quebec and in several locations throughout the Maritimes. .Thousands of memes flooded the platform once it was back up and running. . Twitter meme .The Western Standard sent a message to Twitter's communications team looking for details on what caused the outage and how many subscribers were affected, but did not receive a reply in time for publication. .The outage comes just days after Tesla owner Elon Musk ended his bid to buy the platform. Musk terminated his $44 billion deal last Friday after Twitter failed to provide information about the percentage of fake accounts are active on the platform. .READ MORE: Musk ends bid to buy Twitter.Twitter followed up on Tuesday with an announcement it was suing Musk to force the billionaire to go through with the deal. .Musk and Twitter reached a purchase deal in April, but after attempts by Musk to uncover the actual number of spam accounts active on Twitter, he put the purchase on hold. .READ MORE: Musk's Twitter purchase on hold.Although Twitter claimed only 5% of its active users were spam accounts, Musk claimed he believed the amount was much higher and said the company failed to disclose how it accounted for its figures.
