Twitter Inc.
TWTR,
is back up after an outage hit the social media platform on Thursday morning. The outage appears to have started just before 8:00 am ET, according to the Downdetector website, which tracks outages. Visitors to Twitter received the message “error” and “something went wrong, but don’t fret – it’s not your fault. Let’s try again.” By 9:03 am ET Twitter was back up and the company said it was investigating the outage. “We’re looking into this,” a Twitter spokesperson told MarketWatch. Twitter shares were down 0.4% to $36.59 in premarket trading, but are down 15% in the year to date, compared to the S&P 500’s
SPX,
decline of 20%.
