Twitter back up for many users after global outage

The social networking site became unavailable shortly before 1pm.

The incident comes days after Twitter sued Tesla Musk for violating his deal to buy the company

Twitter was coming back online on Thursday after an hour-long outage kept thousands of users across the globe from accessing the social media website.

The outage affected nearly 2,000 users as of 9 am ET, down from the peak of 50,000 incidents an hour earlier, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.