USA: Thousands of users worldwide were unable to access or use the popular social media platform on Wednesday due to a significant outage at Twitter Inc.

At the height of the outage, there were more than 10,000 affected users from the US, about 2,500 from Japan and about 2,500 from the UK, according to Downdetector, a website that tracks outages through various sources including user reports.

According to the website, reports of Twitter outages decreased drastically as of Wednesday night. There was no immediate response to a request for comment from Twitter. The status page of the social network indicates that all systems are up and running.

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Some users were unable to access their Twitter accounts on desktop computers or laptops during the outage. The problem also affected the features of the mobile app, such as notifications.

Others turned to Twitter to share news and jokes about the outage, and the hashtag #TwitterDown became popular on the social media platform.

Some desktop attempts to log in to Twitter resulted in the following error message: "It's not your fault that something went wrong, so don't worry about it. Trying again now."

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Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweeted that he could still use the service. When a user asked Musk if Twitter was broken, Musk replied, "Works for me." The outage comes two months after Musk's chaotic and controversial $44 billion acquisition of Twitter.

By some estimates, hundreds of Twitter employees left the social media company in November, including engineers in charge of bug fixes and service availability.

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This year, outages have also affected other important technology companies. A nearly 19-hour service outage at Rogers Telecommunications, Canada's largest telecoms provider, in July prevented millions of people from accessing banking, transportation and government services.