Twitter is down for thousands of users this Tuesday (9)

Twitter dropped to thousands of users on Tuesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.

Downdetector, which tracks outages by gathering status reports from various sources, showed over 32,000 outage reports.

“We are looking into this now, we will get back to you as soon as possible,” Twitter told Reuters in an emailed statement.

The social media platform, which is in a legal dispute with Tesla boss Elon Musk over its $44 billion takeover deal, faced a nearly three-hour outage in July, with the company saying it had some issues. with their internal systems that impacted many globally.

Notorious for interruptions in its early years, Twitter was known for using its popular “Fail Whale” illustration, which showed a beluga whale being lifted by birds, during these incidents.

Twitter suffered another widespread outage in February, blamed on a software glitch.