As outage hits thousands of users globally, Twitter says 'let's try again'

During the outage, some users were unable to log in to their Twitter account via desktops or laptops

Twitter Inc suffered a major outage on Wednesday, leaving tens of thousands of users globally unable to access the popular social media platform or use its key features.

Downdetector, a website that tracks outages through a range of sources including user reports, showed more than 10,000 affected users from the United States, about 2,500 from Japan and about 2,500 from the UK at the peak of the disruption.
 

Reports of Twitter outages fell sharply by Wednesday evening, according to the website.
 

Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The social network's status page shows that all systems