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Twitter down: Social network crashes leaving millions without access

Millions of users worldwide said they were unable to send tweets and complained their homepage feeds had gone blank. Photo:REX.

Social network Twitter crashed on Thursday night leaving millions of users worldwide unable to send tweets for about two hours. Twitter users said they are unable to send tweets following the glitch which also caused homepage feeds to go blank. The unexplained outage began at about 10.30pm on Thursday, according to data from Downdetector.

One user wrote: "Is twitter broken or is it just me?".

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