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Twitter is down and experiencing a major outage. Issues started with the service at around 8:05AM ET, with many users reporting “over capacity” error messages, and even errors saying “this page is down.” The issues are affecting Twitter web, mobile, and even the company’s TweetDeck app.
Downdetector has thousands of reports of issues with Twitter, but Twitter’s own status page claims “all systems operational.” While the main Twitter.com domain loads, many users aren’t able to log into the service or access tweets right now. Twitter has started to come back to life, with many able to tweet from around 8:40AM ET onward.
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Twitter error page.
This is the first major Twitter outage since a series of…