Discord outage 'rolled back' after thousands of users report problems

Discord said on Tuesday it had "rolled back" a problem that had prompted thousands of users to report issues with the messaging platform.

Discord said the problem had caused issues with sending messages, logging in. (Representational image) (REUTERS)

Discord said on Tuesday it had "rolled back" a problem that had prompted thousands of users to report issues with the messaging platform. More than 44,000 users had reported issues with Discord on Downdetector.com, a website that tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including user-submitted errors on its platform. Discord said the problem had caused issues with sending messages, logging in and accessing videos on its platform. "Keeping an eye on the fix and the recovery!" Discord's status page said.

Discord, which allows public and private groups to gather and chat by text, audio and video, has expanded from a gamers club to all types of communities, including sports fans, music groups and cryptocurrency investors.

Twitter services briefly down globally; users unable to access posts

February 12 (ANI): Several users of Twitter reported issues while accessing the microblogging site briefly on Friday night.

Netizens across the globe reported that they were unable to tweet, navigate on the site and even has issues while logging in to their accounts.

The website 'DownDetector' showed an outage for Twitter at around 11 pm on Friday, suggesting a global outage in its services.

Twitter Inc stated that there was a technical bug, which has now been fixed and apologized for the interruptions.

"We've fixed a technical bug that was preventing timelines from loading and Tweets from posting. Things should be back to normal now. Sorry for the interruption!" Twitter Support tweeted at 11.44 pm.

Soon after the services got back, a hashtag 'TwitterDown' started trending with users reporting the incident.