Twitter back online after global outage hits thousands

The incident is the social media site's first widespread service disruption since billionaire Elon Musk took over Twitter as CEO

Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment and the social network's status page showed that all systems were operational.

Twitter Inc suffered a major outage on Wednesday, leaving tens of thousands of users globally unable to access the popular social media platform or use its key features for several hours before services appeared to come back online.

The incident is the social media site's first apparent widespread service disruption since billionaire Elon Musk took over Twitter as CEO in late October.