Twitter is offline this Friday afternoon

The website Downdetector recorded a spike in complaints from Twitter users in mid-afternoon this Friday (11).

Users have registered complaints regarding the updating of the social network’s messages, and international newspapers have also reported the platform’s downfall.

Practically zero until 2 pm, the number of complaints went from 3,000 around 3 pm, when it started to drop rapidly. At 15:15, the volume of notifications was already less than 100.

When it started to stabilize again, the social network was the scene of jokes from users.

Recently, other platforms have suffered from instability. The biggest was in October last year, when Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, platforms owned by the company Meta, were down for more than seven hours in different parts of the world. It was one of the biggest global blackouts in the service’s history.

At the time, the main hypothesis raised for the service failure was a problem in the DNS (Domain Name System, or Domain Name System). The acronym refers to a system that records website names and their IP addresses — which are an identifier number.

DNS works like a kind of Internet phone book. When a person types in the website they want to access (such as “www.facebook.com”), it is this service that tells you where (the IP) the social network information is.

Sought, Twitter has not yet commented on the fall of the service.